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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 20–45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 3-10 | Small cross-functional group |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning |