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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
Operations
Fishbone Diagram
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 a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesFishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog
Tagsno overlap
TimelineFacilitationSequence
Root causeQualityOperations
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