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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Engineering Golden Path |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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 teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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