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| Criterion |  Agile NoEstimates |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules. | 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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-10 | 2-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationForecastingFlow | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |