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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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 complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels.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.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend45-90 min30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)3-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision LogRAID Log, Status Report SourceAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
DecisionRolesGovernance
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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