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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-6 | 2-8 |
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 | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |