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| Criterion |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | 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. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 20–45 min | 90-180 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Small cross-functional group | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | FailureResilienceRisk |