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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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 project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 20–45 min | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | Small cross-functional group | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tags1 shared | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |