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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  UX Research Surveys |  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. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 3-14 Tage | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 50+ | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | QuantitativeResearchValidation | FailureResilienceRisk |
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