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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() DevOps Blameless Postmortem | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | After an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-12 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



