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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 20–45 min | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | Small cross-functional group | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |