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Criterion
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
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Timedifferent
30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-3 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-81-82-8
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
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ForecastingFlowDelivery
SensemakingDecisionRationale
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
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