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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile | ![]() Decision Making Pre-Mortem | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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 | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 20–45 min | 20-35 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | Small cross-functional group | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |



