- After Action Review ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000008128
US Army (1970s); adopted widely in emergency services and business.
- Assumption Busting ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006328
Same family as Assumption Reversal; distinguished by adding a validity test.
- Change Management ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007592
Lewin's unfreeze-change-refreeze; Kotter's eight steps; ADKAR.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000008288
Dupuit (1848); formalized in US federal practice from the 1936 Flood Control Act.
- Decision Matrix ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000008792
Pugh controlled convergence; weighted-sum multi-attribute value theory.
- Feasibility Study ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006888
Capital-project appraisal; TELOS (technical, economic, legal, operational, schedule).
- Gantt Chart ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007496
Adamiecki's harmonogram (1896); Gantt (1910s).
- Monitoring Dashboard ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007320
Statistical process control (Shewhart); balanced scorecard.
- OKRs ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000009752
Andy Grove at Intel (1970s); popularized by John Doerr at Google.
- PDCA Cycle ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007792
Shewhart (1939); Deming, who later renamed it PDSA and objected to 'check'.
- Pilot Testing ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000007720
Clinical-trial design; A/B testing; staged rollout.
- RACI Matrix ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000008544
Project management practice; variants include RASCI, CAIRO.
- Random Word Association ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000005328
de Bono. The canonical instance of Random Stimulation.
- Risk Matrix ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000006656
MIL-STD-882; ubiquitous in enterprise risk management.
- Stakeholder Mapping ⤓ .md 2026-07-13T092753.000 000000000005840
Mendelow's power/interest grid; Mitchell-Agle-Wood salience.