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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-6 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |