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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Delivery RAID Log |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Delivery Communication Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning |