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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Strategy Map | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h workshop plus review | 45-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect Hypotheses | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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