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Decision Making
DACI
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Agile
Ideal Days
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent
In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min15-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-102-92-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision LogIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
EstimationEffortAgile
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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