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| Criterion |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-240 min | 45-60 min | 30-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |