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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | 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. | 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 | 60-120 min | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |