Decision

Prioritizes requirements across must, should, could, and won't, creating a negotiable release set with clear boundaries.

Core question: Which requirements must be in this release, which are negotiable, and what is deliberately left for later?

• 30-90 min
• 3-12

Thinks through failure in advance to surface risks, countermeasures, and critical assumptions early.

Core question: Which plausible reasons could make this initiative fail at the assumed point, and how will we detect or reduce them?

• 20–45 min
• Small cross-functional group

Examines an initiative from an opposing perspective, collects weaknesses, and derives prioritized mitigations.

Core question: How could the plan fail under a credible opposing perspective, and what changes the decision?

• 1-4 h
• 3-8

Weighs options against criteria so comparison, scoring rationale, and selection are documented traceably.

Core question: Which option best fits the decision against the same evidenced criteria and disclosed uncertainty?

• 45-90 min
• 2-8

Draws decisions as branching paths so options, conditions, and consequences become clearer in comparison.

Core question: Which actions and uncertainties lead to which outcomes, and what assumptions support the choice?

• 30-90 min
• 1-6

Deliberately switches between perspectives to gather decision inputs in a structured way and spot blind spots.

Core question: What becomes visible when we examine the same question in turn through information, feeling, value, caution, creativity and process control?

• 45-90 min
• 4-12

Sharpens a planned step through impact, success criteria, and risks down to the smallest sensible move.

Core question: Which impact justifies this initiative and what must be true for it to succeed?

• 20-45 min
• 1-6

Clarifies roles for driver, approver, contributors, and informed and records the decision in a solid matrix.

Core question: Who drives this decision, who decides, who provides input and who needs to know the result?

• 30-60 min
• 2-10

Arranges decision responsibility across five roles and makes recommendation, input, and follow-up unambiguous.

Core question: Who recommends, must agree, provides input, decides and executes the decision?

• 45-90 min
• 3-12

Bundles expert estimates across rounds until ranges, consensus, and assumptions become solid enough.

Core question: What share of our customers will require digital evidence by the end of 2028?

• 1-4 Wochen
• 6-30 Experten

Pits driving and restraining forces against each other to deliberately derive change levers and interventions.

Core question: Which driving and restraining forces sustain the current state, and where can a responsible intervention work?

• 45-90 min
• 3-12

Sorts problems, reframes the top issue, and derives experiments that quickly turn frustration into movement.

Core question: Which most important problem will we address with which solution as the next experiment?

• 60-90 min
• 4-10

Clarifies workflows, data, causes, and improvements by framing the situation, analyzing the problem with is/is not, and planning risks and actions.

Core question: Do we need situation appraisal, cause analysis, a decision or safeguards for a plan?

• 2-8 h
• 2-8

Clarifies options, criteria, and risks by framing the central question, recording the main claim, and marking weak spots.

Core question: Which reasons support the claim, which objections weaken it and what evidence is missing?

• 1-3 h
• 1-8

Clarifies concepts, relationships, and rules by framing the issue, collecting positions, and marking decisions or open questions.

Core question: Which position answers the Issue most convincingly given the current arguments?

• 1-3 h
• 2-8

Clarifies options, criteria, and risks by framing the initiative or decision, collecting implicit assumptions, and planning tests or research.

Core question: Which unproven assumption would endanger the initiative most if it were false?

• 45-90 min
• 2-8

Connects observation, orientation, action, and feedback into a fast decision cycle.

Core question: Which action will we test from the current situation, and which feedback starts the next OODA cycle?

• 15-60 min je Zyklus
• 1-8

Sorts cases into the fitting domain and derives actions that match the degree of clarity or complexity.

Core question: Which context does each concrete case inhabit, and which decision logic fits it?

• 60-180 min
• 4-20

Compares options against criteria and accepted downsides so the decision stays transparently justifiable.

Core question: Which alternative offers the best justified value across conflicting objectives, and under which assumptions does the choice change?

• 45-120 min
• 2-8

Makes hard and soft boundaries visible and turns them into decision rules and option impact notes.

Core question: Which limit currently binds the system goal, which apparent limits are rules or assumptions, and what does a controlled relief test show?

• 30-90 min
• 2-8

Moves options, criteria, and risks toward a concrete result through "set the scales for likelihood and impact", "collect risks or carry them over from earlier identification", and "define actions for each high-risk item".

Core question: Which risks exceed our tolerance in the agreed horizon, and which response reduces them credibly?

• 30-60 min
• 3-10

Moves options, criteria, and risks toward a concrete result through "identify key decision types", "collect roles", and "document and communicate the agreement".

Core question: Who recommends, provides input, must agree, decides once, and performs this specific decision?

• 90-180 min
• 4-12

Moves scope, order, and delivery flow toward a concrete result through "adopt the initiative list", "clarify value types for each initiative, such as revenue, efficiency, or risk", and "derive a sorted sequence".

Core question: What value is lost per week of delay, what is the loss profile, and which assumptions support the estimate?

• 90-180 min
• 3-8

Moves target group, value, goals, and priorities toward a concrete result through "prepare the idea backlog", "define scales for I, C, and E", and "select top ideas for testing or building".

Core question: Which idea offers relatively high impact with strong evidence and reasonable effort?

• 30-60 min
• 2-8

Links data, insights, beliefs, and bets so strategy and product decisions become traceable and reviewable.

Core question: Which bet follows from which belief, and which insight is supported by what data?

• 1-2 h
• 2-8

Uses a structured proposal and review process to make non-trivial technical or product changes discussable and decidable.

Core question: Is the proposal decision-ready with alternatives, consequences, and a migration path?

• 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung
• 3-20 Reviewer