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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | 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. | When many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |