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Criterion
Paper illustration for Failure Scenario Analysis.
Engineering
Failure Scenario Analysis
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
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.When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-84-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response ActionsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
FailureResilienceRisk
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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Start Stop Continue
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
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