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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Learning Card |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-60 min | 25-40 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Learning Card with evidence and next action | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |