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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy ICE Scoring | ![]() Decision Making Pre-Mortem | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 20–45 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ICE Table, Top Idea List | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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