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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
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)
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Purposedifferent
The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
25-40 min3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional20-35 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-51 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people1-51-5
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Learning Card with evidence and next actionLean 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 checksTest Card with a pre-set thresholdCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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