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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Property Graph Schema Design | ![]() 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. | Property Graph Schema Design turns business and technical requirements into a robust graph schema. It fits when query patterns, constraints, and migrations need to be thought about together. | 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 | 4-8 h initial, dann iterativ | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-6 | 1-6 | 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 | Schema Diagram, Node and Relationship Catalog, Index Plan, Migration Scripts, Sample Queries | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling | Knowledge graphModelingSemantic | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |



