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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Purposedifferent
When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-62-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogIssue Map, Positions, Argument Notes
Tagsno overlap
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Product Strategy
DIBB
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Innovation
Lean Startup