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| Criterion |  Facilitation Dot Estimation |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When size or effort can only be estimated roughly, Dot Estimation condenses the group's experience into a quick range. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as an Effort Heatmap, Risk Signals, and Discussion Targets. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-20 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | 3-10 | 2-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Effort Heatmap, Risk Signals, Discussion Targets | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationEffortRisk | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |