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| Criterion |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 2-6 | 1-5 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |