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| Criterion |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 30-60 min | 45-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 Reviewer | 1-5 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |