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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 60-120 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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