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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Purposedifferent
When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time.When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min10-20 min20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-124-100+Small cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
TimelineFacilitationSequence
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam