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Criterion
Paper illustration for Fault Isolation.
Engineering
Fault Isolation
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
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 topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-180 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-64-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault AreaPerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items
Tagsno overlap
TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering
FacilitationOptionsDecision
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Facilitation
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Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration for Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting.
Engineering
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