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| Criterion |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making RAPID |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When goals are formulated too generally, it brings measurability, direction, and timing into shape. It prevents intentions from staying without clear verification. | 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. | 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. | 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 | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 20–45 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | Small cross-functional group | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DecisionRolesGovernance | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |