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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 20–45 min | 45-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |