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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | 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. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | 90-180 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |