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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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 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.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-2 h Setup, laufend45-90 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-63-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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