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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Engineering Fault Isolation |
|---|---|---|
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. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering |
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