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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |  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 systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-240 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 1-6 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |
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