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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
Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Riskiest Assumption Test
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.When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
As needed1-4 Wochen1-2 Wochen pro Iteration
Participantsdifferent
4-156-30 Experten2-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Incident Log, Action Tracker, Stakeholder UpdatesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesPrioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report
Tagsno overlap
IncidentOperationsReliability
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions
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Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas