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Criterion
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
A 5 Whys working surface connects an observable problem with evidenced causes, marked uncertainty and concrete countermeasures with ownership.
Operations
5 Whys
Paper illustration for Root Cause Tree Analysis
Operations
Root Cause Tree Analysis
Purposedifferent
When story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.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.For a single, hard-to-explain deviation, the method exposes the causal chain behind the visible symptom. It keeps the cause open until a controllable condition emerges instead of a mere description.For a problem with several suspected causes, the method builds a causal structure instead of a mere list. It makes visible how causes connect and where the strongest points of leverage lie.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min30 min Setup, dann laufend15-30 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
31-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceRoot cause notes, CountermeasuresCause Tree, Evidence Notes, Countermeasures
Tagsno overlap
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
Root causeIncidentLeanProblem solving
Root causeTreeIncidentQuality
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