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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  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. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 20–45 min | 45-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |