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Criterion
Paper illustration for Golden Circle
Growth
Golden Circle
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Purposedifferent
In positioning and communication, what an offering actually stands for often becomes blurred. The Golden Circle sharpens a product's inner rationale and connects purpose, approach, and offering into a clear statement.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min30 min Setup, dann laufend20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
1-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyoneSmall cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Why Statement, Messaging Notes, Positioning DraftRAID Log, Status Report SourceRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
MarketingPositioningCommunication
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)