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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
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 several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic.When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.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
HighMediumLowHigh
Timedifferent
45-90 min45-90 min1-5 Tage90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-102-8Nutzertraffic3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsDecision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected OptionInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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