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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. | 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, 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 | Low | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 20–45 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-10 | Small cross-functional group | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |