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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Operations Fault Tree Analysis |  Operations Fishbone Diagram |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a critical top event with several possible triggers, the method logically models failure paths. It makes visible which combinations of conditions can lead to damage. | When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 2-6 h | 30-60 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Fault Tree, Critical Paths, Cause Hypotheses, Control Actions | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | RiskRoot causeSafety | Root causeQualityOperations | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |