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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-60 min | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 1-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ForecastingFlowDelivery | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |