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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy VMGS | ![]() Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree | ![]() UX Design Lean UX Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | VMGS arranges vision, mission, goals, and strategies into a clear guiding logic. Direction, purpose, and priorities are connected so teams can decide more coherently. | 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. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 2-3 h | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-6 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, Strategies | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | VisionGoalsStrategy | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



