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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  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. | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |
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