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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | 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 problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 1-4 h | 20–45 min | 60-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 3-8 | Small cross-functional group | 4-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | RiskDecisionSensemaking | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | ComplexitySensemakingDecision |