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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.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
HighHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-4 Wochen1-2 h90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-106-30 Experten4-123-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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