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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-3 h pro Pattern | 2-4 h | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-6 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |