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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery Communication Plan | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Decision Making Constraint Analysis | ![]() Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | 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. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 1-5 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tagsno overlap | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |



