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| Criterion |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Decision Tree |  Engineering Failure Scenario 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. | 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. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 20–45 min | 30-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | Small cross-functional group | 1-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DecisionTreeOptions | FailureResilienceRisk |