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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Purposedifferent
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.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowLowHigh
Timedifferent
20–45 min45-90 min30 min Setup, dann laufend90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group2-61-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceRAID Log, Status Report SourceCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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