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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Delivery Communication Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication. | 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 many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-8 | 3-10 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | ForecastingFlowDelivery | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning |