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Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Purposedifferent
When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences.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.With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 min45-120 min20-45 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-102-81-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesOwnership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
Tagsno overlap
RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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