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| Criterion |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 20-35 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 6-30 Experten | 1-5 | 3-10 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |