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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Purposedifferent
When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
45-90 min45-90 min1-5 Tage90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-102-8Nutzertraffic3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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