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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  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 delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | 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 | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 6-30 Experten | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |