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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-4 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs | ValidationDemandMVP | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |
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