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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-60 min | 30-60 min | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | LeanStartupValidationMVP | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |