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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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 a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
20–45 min1-3 h1-2 h Setup, laufend60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group5-3014-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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