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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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 | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 2-8 | 2-6 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |