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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | JourneyServiceService design | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas |