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Criterion
Incident Command workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Incident Command
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Game Day workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Game Day
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Purposedifferent
During an acute incident with several people involved, the method creates a clear leadership and communication structure. It reduces chaos when fast coordination and clean situational awareness are both needed at once.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.In preparing for rare incidents, the method tests response capability under controlled conditions. It shows where assumptions about stability, roles, and recovery are too optimistic.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHighHigh
Timedifferent
As needed1-4 WochenHalber Tag2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
4-156-30 Experten5-202-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Incident Log, Action Tracker, Stakeholder UpdatesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesSimulation Notes, Gaps List, Updated RunbooksProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
Tagsno overlap
IncidentOperationsReliability
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ResilienceOperationsIncident
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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