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| Criterion |  Operations Eat the Frog |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | 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. | When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-90 min daily | 1-5 Tage | 45-90 min | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Priority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |