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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery RAID Log | ![]() Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis | ![]() Decision Making Pre-Mortem | ![]() Delivery Communication Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-3 h | 20–45 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 3-8 | Small cross-functional group | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | FailureResilienceRisk | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning |



