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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Opportunity Interview |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  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 opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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 | 30-60 min je Interview | 30-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 5-12 Interviews | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |