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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Decision Making RAPID |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 45-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 2-8 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | DecisionRolesGovernance | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |