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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration for Failure Scenario Analysis.
Engineering
Failure Scenario Analysis
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
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.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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend1-3 h30 min Setup, dann laufend20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)3-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyoneSmall cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalFailure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response ActionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
FailureResilienceRisk
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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