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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 of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
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.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-103-122-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Rich Picture, Problem Framing NotesPostmortem Doc, Action Items, TimelineIssue Map, Positions, Argument Notes
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization
Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
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Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
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CATWOE Analysis
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Knowledge Modeling
Feynman Technique
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Decision Making
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