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| Criterion | ![]() Engineering Fault Isolation | ![]() Facilitation Power Interest Grid | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|
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 many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 30-60 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 2-8 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |
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