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Criterion
Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
Paper illustration for Failure Scenario Analysis.
Engineering
Failure Scenario Analysis
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Purposedifferent
When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.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.When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
15-60 min1-3 h20-40 min initial, dann laufend20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-93-83-15Small cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsFailure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response ActionsROAM Board, Owner ListRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
EstimationEffortAgile
FailureResilienceRisk
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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