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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Delivery RAID Log |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | 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. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 60–90 min | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |