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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
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 early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowHighLow
Timedifferent
60-90 min20–45 min1-4 Wochen60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-10Small cross-functional group1-64-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
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