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Criterion
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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 many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h30 min Setup, dann laufend20–45 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyoneSmall cross-functional group2-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresRAID Log, Status Report SourceRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
FlowMeasurementConstraints
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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