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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Business Strategy Business Model Canvas |  Product Strategy KPI Tree |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Business Model Canvas condenses a business model to its key building blocks and assumptions. It makes variants quickly comparable and reveals gaps before validation or implementation begins. | When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h | 90-180 min initial, dann laufend | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Business Model Canvas, Assumption List, Business Hypotheses | KPI Tree, Owner List | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | Business modelStrategyValueInnovation | MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |