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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Learning Card | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. | Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 25-40 min | 1-3 h pro Pattern | 45-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 1-6 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Learning Card with evidence and next action | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |



