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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Agile WSJF |  Operations Root Cause Analysis |  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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. | 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 | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 1-4 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |