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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Decision Making Decision Tree |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. | 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. | When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-6 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | DecisionTreeOptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |