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Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration of a scoring table with four factor columns, a calculator and three ordered initiative cards.
Product Strategy
RICE Scoring
Purposedifferent
Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.When many initiatives compete for the same resources, it brings reach, impact, confidence, and effort into one shared ranking. It makes prioritization economically connectable.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
60-120 min45-120 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-82-82-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesRICE Scores, Ranked List, Assumption Log
Tagsno overlap
GrowthRetentionConversion
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
PrioritizationScoringRoadmapTradeoffs
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Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
Paper illustration of ICE Scoring with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
ICE Scoring
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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Delivery
Cost of Delay