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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 30-90 min | 20–45 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DecisionTreeOptions |