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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 30-90 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |