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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario. | When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Half day | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-10 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Stress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |