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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Engineering Failure Scenario Analysis |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In critical processes, it is not enough to plan only for the normal case. Failure Scenario Analysis looks at the path into failure and shows which failures, chains, and control gaps cause the most damage. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 1-3 h | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 3-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Failure Scenarios, Risk Notes, Control Gaps, Test and Response Actions | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | FailureResilienceRisk | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |