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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Operations Failure Mode and Effects Analysis |  Product Strategy DIBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | For a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability. | DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 2-6 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-5 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions | DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause | StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis |