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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
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.When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.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
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
20–45 minHalf day initial, dann laufend30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional groupEin Team plus Stakeholder2-82-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logTeam API DocumentPower Interest Grid, Strategy per StakeholderCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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