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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 15-45 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 1-3 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |