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Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis
Purposedifferent
A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.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.When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
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Timedifferent
2-6 h30 min Setup, dann laufend1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
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Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention IdeasRAID Log, Status Report SourceProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
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Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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8D Problem Solving
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
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Causal Factor Analysis