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| Criterion |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | 90-180 min | 45-60 min | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tagsno overlap | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |