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| Criterion |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | 30-60 min | 45-75 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-5 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Matrix, Test Plan | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |