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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making Argument Mapping | ![]() Decision Making Pre-Mortem | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 20–45 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | Small cross-functional group | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | SensemakingDecisionRationale | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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