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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Innovation Lean Startup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min | 1-5 Tage | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | LeanStartupValidationMVP |