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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Operations Fishbone Diagram |  Architecture SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) |  Operations ALPEN Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers. | SAAM helps teams judge an architecture’s suitability for selected tasks and changes. It is particularly useful for examining modifiability and comparing architecture alternatives with clear reasoning. | With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-60 min | Preparation, scenario analysis, and findings review; effort depends on scope | 10-20 min daily |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | Architecture experts and stakeholders for scenarios and weighting | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Fishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog | Domain functions mapped to components and connections, Quality attributes and evaluation criteria, Typical tasks and their effects on the architecture, Reasoned evaluation or comparison of alternatives | Daily Plan, Time Estimates, Review Notes |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | Root causeQualityOperations | ArchitectureChangeAnalysisComparisonQuality | PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations |