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| Criterion |  UX Research Personas |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Decision Tree |  Decision Making Red Teaming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | 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. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 20–45 min | 30-90 min | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | Internes Team | Small cross-functional group | 1-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DecisionTreeOptions | RiskDecisionSensemaking |