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Criterion
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-2 Wochen je Loop1-4 Wochen45-90 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-106-30 Experten3-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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