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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration of MORT Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
MORT Analysis
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.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 a safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
20–45 min30-90 minMehrere Tage bis Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group1-62-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListMORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic Recommendations
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
DecisionTreeOptions
Root causeSafetySystemicIncident
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Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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Barrier Analysis
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
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Paper illustration of Family Tree Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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Paper illustration for Fault Tree Analysis.
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