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| Criterion |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | 60-180 min | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-20 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionSensemaking | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |
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