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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Working Backwards |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When the target state and benefit need to be clear first, it thinks backward from the desired outcome into the product logic. It sharpens vision, objections, and value proposition before elaboration. | 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. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 4-8 h, mehrere Iterationen | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 1-5 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Future Press Release, FAQ, Vision Statement | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | VisionNarrativeAlignment | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |