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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-6 h | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 20–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-8 | Small cross-functional group |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log |
Tagsno overlap | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | FailureResilienceRisk | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning |