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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |
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