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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | LeanStartupValidationMVP | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model |