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Criterion
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Purposedifferent
When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
60-180 min1-3 h20-35 min25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
4-201-81-51-5
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking NotesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleTest Card with a pre-set thresholdLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
SensemakingDecisionRationale
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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