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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery RAID Log | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 45-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 2-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |



