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Criterion
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for DACI
Decision Making
DACI
Purposedifferent
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.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-2 h20–45 min30 min Setup, dann laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-12Small cross-functional group1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logRAID Log, Status Report SourceDACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
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