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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making OODA Loop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | In dynamic situations, decisions become outdated faster than they can be prepared. The OODA Loop holds observing, orienting, deciding, and acting together as a recurring rhythm so reaction does not slide into inertia. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 20–45 min | 15-60 min je Zyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | Small cross-functional group | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Situation Assessment, Decision Loop, Action Updates |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | DecisionChangeLearningStrategy |