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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 20–45 min | 60-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Small cross-functional group | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | FailureResilienceRisk |