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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 60-90 min | 2-6 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 4-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |