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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Decision Making Decision Tree |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | 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. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 1-4 h | 30-90 min | 60-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 3-8 | 1-6 | 4-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes |
Tags1 shared | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | RiskDecisionSensemaking | DecisionTreeOptions | ComplexitySensemakingDecision |