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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 45-60 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-20 Reviewer | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |