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Criterion
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Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
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Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min2-8 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-62-81-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk PlanArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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