Use when a recommendation, plan, diagnosis, or stakeholder judgment depends on unstated assumptions that must be named and tested. Use when applying assumption inventory, assumption mapping, leap-of-faith assumption review, or critical assumption testing.
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Use when the timing of events, turning points, stakeholder behavior changes, or cause-and-effect sequence must be clarified. Use when applying a change event timeline, turning-point analysis, event sequence map, or before-after signal review.
Use when the user needs immediate controllable next actions inside limited authority, resources, or certainty. Use when applying 15% Solutions, small controllable action, low-regret next step, agency boundary, or next-72-hour action planning.
Use when assumptions, analogies, legacy constraints, or accepted ways of working may be hiding a better solution. Use when applying First Principles Thinking, reasoning from fundamentals, assumption stripping, rebuilding from basic truths, or non-incremental…
Use when a situation contains many facts, feelings, events, rumors, or weak cues and the real signal must be separated from noise. Use when applying signal detection, signal-versus-noise filtering, pattern relevance review, or decision-signal extraction.
Use when a problem involves interacting actors, feedback loops, delays, incentives, constraints, unintended consequences, or repeated patterns over time. Use when applying systems thinking, causal loop analysis, system mapping, leverage point identification,…
Use after a deal, project, pitch, proposal, or client pursuit to learn why the outcome happened. Use when applying the Win Loss Review consulting method and when a user asks for Win Loss Review, method execution, structured diagnosis, or action planning.
Use when sequencing backlog items, initiatives, features, epics, or projects where delay cost and job size both matter. Use when applying Weighted Shortest Job First, WSJF, Cost of Delay divided by Job Size, economic sequencing, backlog prioritization, or…
Use when the best explanation must be inferred from incomplete, ambiguous, or competing evidence. Use when applying abductive reasoning, inference to the best explanation, mystery diagnosis, competing explanation review, or plausible hypothesis selection.
Use when many raw ideas, observations, quotes, pain points, risks, requirements, or research notes need to be grouped into natural themes. Use when applying affinity diagramming, affinity mapping, KJ method, qualitative clustering, theme synthesis, or…
Use when progress is limited by bottlenecks, scarce resources, binding constraints, dependencies, policy limits, capacity limits, decision rights, or one factor that controls throughput. Use when applying constraint analysis, bottleneck diagnosis, theory of…
Use when a decision depends on a few uncertain variables whose direction could materially change the plan. Use when applying critical uncertainties, uncertainty mapping, scenario driver selection, strategic uncertainty review, or signpost planning.
Use when a conclusion must be tested against explicit rules, principles, criteria, policies, definitions, premises, or if-then logic. Use when applying deductive reasoning, rule-based reasoning, premise-to-conclusion testing, logical consistency checks, or…
Use when facts, claims, assumptions, missing evidence, and confidence levels need to be separated before diagnosis. Use when applying an evidence map, evidence ledger, fact-versus-assumption review, proof inventory, or evidence-strength assessment.
Use when patterns, trends, generalizations, or likely rules must be inferred from examples, cases, observations, data points, interviews, events, or repeated signals. Use when applying inductive reasoning, pattern inference, evidence-to-generalization…
Use when a problem, issue tree, option set, segmentation, workplan, hypothesis set, risk list, or recommendation structure must be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. Use when applying MECE, no-overlap/no-gap structuring, consulting issue…
Use when a plan, partnership, deal, product, change, or stakeholder move needs the minimum necessary conditions for success. Use when applying Min Specs, minimum specifications, must-have constraints, no-go criteria, or success conditions.
Use when a recommendation, hypothesis, action plan, or business decision needs explicit evidence, tests, decision gates, and continue-adjust-stop criteria. Use when applying validation planning, experiment design, hypothesis test design, decision gates, or…