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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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 an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |