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Criterion
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Purposedifferent
When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
45-90 min1-4 Wochen30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-121-62-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
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FacilitationOptionsDecision
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam