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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-10 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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