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| Criterion |  Operations Failure Mode and Effects Analysis |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-6 h | 20-35 min | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |