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Paper illustration of Pretotyping with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Pretotyping
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
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 delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible.When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Stunden bis wenige Tage1-3 h45-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-44-102-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decisionCurrent-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap
ValidationDemandMVP
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
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Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
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Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
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Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
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