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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-6 | 4-10 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |