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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
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.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess.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.
Complexitysame
HighHighHighHigh
Timedifferent
45-90 min1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen4-5 Tage90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-104-105-83-8
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsPrototype, Test Findings, Decision RationaleCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
InnovationPrototypeResearch
Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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