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Criterion
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
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 loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 Wochen je Loop15-30 min20-45 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-103-124-1010-50
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportIdea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listIdea List, Cluster, ShortlistSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
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