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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Operations Causal Factor Analysis |  Operations Family Tree Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries. | For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events. | For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 2-6 h | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 3-10 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions | Family Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline | Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic |
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