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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Paper illustration for DACI
Decision Making
DACI
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
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.Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning.In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.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
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend1-2 Wochen je Loop30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)3-102-102-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalDirection, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportDACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision LogAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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