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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy Lean Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Pretotyping | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 1-4 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | ValidationDemandMVP | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |
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