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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Facilitation Power Interest Grid |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |