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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Decision Making Red Teaming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 20–45 min | 30-90 min | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | RiskDecisionSensemaking |