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Criterion
Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
20-45 min45-60 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-82-81-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk rankingArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
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