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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
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.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend45-120 min20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8Small cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing