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| Criterion |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Test Card |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 20-35 min | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 1-5 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | LeanStartupValidationMVP | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |