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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-6 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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