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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-3 h | 60-120 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-8 | 5-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FailureResilienceRisk | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment |