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Criterion
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Agile
WSJF
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Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
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Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Purposedifferent
When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min5-15 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-101-55-30
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas
Tagsno overlap
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
StartupValidationCompetition
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
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Facilitation
Dot Voting
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
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Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping