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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |  Agile Bucket System |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. | SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 3-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |