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| Criterion |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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 | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-4 h | 45-60 min | 20–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log |
Tags1 shared | FailureResilienceRisk | RiskDecisionSensemaking | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning |