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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Operations PDCA Cycle |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | For an improvement that still has to prove itself in everyday work, the method runs it through small learning loops. It connects planning, checking, and standardization into a repeatable learning mode. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 45-60 min | 1 h bis mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | PDCA Log, Experiment Plan, Learning Outcome, Standard Change | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | Continuous improvementLeanExperiments | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |