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Paper illustration for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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Operations
Getting Things Done
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Purposedifferent
For a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-6 h1-2 h Setup, laufend20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-101Small cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation ActionsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
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RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
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ALPEN Method
Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
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Fishbone Diagram
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Kepner-Tregoe
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Weekly Review