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Criterion
Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Purposedifferent
When there is uncertainty about the real course of a process, the method brings observation to the place where work happens. It combines perception, follow-up questions, and process knowledge so decisions rest on actual workflows instead of assumptions.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-120 min20-35 min1-5 Tage30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-61-5Nutzertraffic1-5
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Observation Notes, Improvement IdeasTest Card with a pre-set thresholdClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
LeanObservationProcessOperations
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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