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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 2-6 h | 20–45 min | 45-60 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |