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| Criterion |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 30-180 min | 60-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1-6 | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |