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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |