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| Criterion |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 1-3 h | 60-180 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 5-30 | 4-20 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |