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Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
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
Purposedifferent
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.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min90-180 min30 min Setup, dann laufend20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-64-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyoneSmall cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceDecision Rights Matrix, AgreementRAID Log, Status Report SourceRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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