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Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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.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.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
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Timedifferent
30-180 min1-2 h30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-62-82-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
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TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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