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| Criterion |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 15-45 min | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-10 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | LeanStartupValidationMVP | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |