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| Criterion |  DevOps Blameless Postmortem |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | After an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | 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. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections |
Tagsno overlap | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange |