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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-3 Tage | 1-5 Tage | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-4 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |