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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Architecture LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews) |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | 3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Lean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checks | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity |