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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for DACI
Decision Making
DACI
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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend20–45 min20-40 min initial, dann laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)Small cross-functional group3-152-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logROAM Board, Owner ListDACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
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