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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  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 a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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 | 15-45 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-10 | 2-6 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |