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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Architecture LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews) |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 4-10 | 1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Lean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checks | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | InnovationPrototypeResearch | ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |