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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Game Day workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Game Day
Paper illustration for Failure Scenario Analysis.
Engineering
Failure Scenario 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.In preparing for rare incidents, the method tests response capability under controlled conditions. It shows where assumptions about stability, roles, and recovery are too optimistic.In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage.
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Timedifferent
20–45 minHalber Tag1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group5-203-8
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logSimulation Notes, Gaps List, Updated RunbooksFailure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions
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RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
ResilienceOperationsIncident
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