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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | When systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 30-180 min | 60-90 min | 30-240 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 1-6 | 4-10 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis |