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| Criterion |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Agile Bucket System |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. | 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. | 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. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2-3 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-8 | 2-6 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |