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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 20–45 min | 2-3 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | Small cross-functional group | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |