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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy GIST Planning | ![]() Product Strategy Impact Mapping | ![]() Operations Getting Things Done | ![]() Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-8 | 1 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |



