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| Criterion | ![]() DevOps Blameless Postmortem | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() Operations MORT Analysis | ![]() Operations Causal Factor Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | For a safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps. | For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | High |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 5-15 min | Mehrere Tage bis Wochen | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 1-5 | 2-6 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | MORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic Recommendations | Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions |
Tagsno overlap | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability | StartupValidationCompetition | Root causeSafetySystemicIncident | CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline |



