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Criterion
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Purposedifferent
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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h Setup, laufend20–45 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1Small cross-functional group1-6
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Action Lists, Project List, Review RoutineRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
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ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing