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| Criterion |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | 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. | When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic. | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 20–45 min | 45-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions |
Tagsno overlap | FlowMeasurementConstraints | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs | FailureResilienceRisk |