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Criterion
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early.After an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
30-90 min30-90 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
2-103-123-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Rich Picture, Problem Framing NotesPostmortem Doc, Action Items, TimelineCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
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Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
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Theory of Constraints Thinking Process
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