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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Decision Making Option Framing |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question. | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 45-120 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison | FlowMeasurementConstraints |