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Criterion
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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.For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.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.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowLow
Timedifferent
60-180 min1-4 h30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-203-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking NotesChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanRAID Log, Status Report SourceAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
ComplexitySensemakingDecision
RiskDecisionSensemaking
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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