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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Growth A/B Testing |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | 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. | 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 an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-6 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |