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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work. | 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 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 | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 1 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |