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Criterion
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
60-90 min10-20 min45-60 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
4-124-100+2-84-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk rankingIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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