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Criterion
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
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 Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Purposedifferent
Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.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.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 Wochen je Loop30-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
3-103-122-61-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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