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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  UX Research User Interviews |  Product Discovery Opportunity Interview |  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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 30–60 min per interview | 30-60 min je Interview | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 1 participant per interview | 5-12 Interviews | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer | FailureResilienceRisk |