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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-20 Reviewer | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |
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