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Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Incident Command workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Incident Command
Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent
DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.During an acute incident with several people involved, the method creates a clear leadership and communication structure. It reduces chaos when fast coordination and clean situational awareness are both needed at once.After an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures.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
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 hAs needed30-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
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Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportIncident Log, Action Tracker, Stakeholder UpdatesPostmortem Doc, Action Items, TimelineAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
IncidentOperationsReliability
Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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