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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
A paper-based illustration representing Product Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Strategy
Product Canvas
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.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.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.When product goal and feature scope don't yet fit cleanly together, it creates a shared working picture. It connects need, core features, and assumptions into a solid starting point.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min2-4 h45-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-102-82-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanProduct Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope Notes
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ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
CanvasDiscoveryScope
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