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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | 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. | 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 | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-60 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | InnovationPrototypeResearch | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |