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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 a calibrated five-by-five risk matrix with response cards.
Decision Making
Risk Matrix
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
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.When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List.When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min30-60 min45-90 min3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional
Participantsdifferent
1-63-103-101 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogRisk Matrix, Top Risk ListRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsLean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checks
Tagsno overlap
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
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