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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. | 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. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |