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| Criterion | ![]() Engineering Kanban | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 45-60 min | 30-60 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-8 | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |



