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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Product Strategy RICE Scoring |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When many initiatives compete for the same resources, it brings reach, impact, confidence, and effort into one shared ranking. It makes prioritization economically connectable. | 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. | When ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 60-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 2-10 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | RICE Scores, Ranked List, Assumption Log | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | ICE Table, Top Idea List |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | PrioritizationScoringRoadmapTradeoffs | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision |