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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. | When many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-5 | 2-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |