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Criterion
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
ChatOps workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
ChatOps
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Purposedifferent
DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.For operational work in a distributed team, the method links communication with direct system control. It records decisions right where the signal, the context, and the execution come together.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-2 hOngoing20-35 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-201-52-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportChat Transcript, Action Log, AutomationsTest Card with a pre-set thresholdAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
CollaborationEngineeringIncident
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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