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| Criterion |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | 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. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | 20–45 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tags1 shared | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |