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| Criterion |  Operations PDCA Cycle |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For an improvement that still has to prove itself in everyday work, the method runs it through small learning loops. It connects planning, checking, and standardization into a repeatable learning mode. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1 h bis mehrere Wochen | 45-120 min | 30-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | PDCA Log, Experiment Plan, Learning Outcome, Standard Change | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | Continuous improvementLeanExperiments | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |