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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Innovation Crazy 8s |  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 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. | With only a few minutes available and a still-fuzzy solution search, the method forces a wide range of variants. It produces fast sketches before the first idea can settle in, making different directions directly comparable and open to further development. | 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 | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 45-90 min | 8-15 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 1-6 | 1-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Sketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction Options | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |