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Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
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
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.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 Wochen je Loop20–45 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10Small cross-functional group3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for OODA Loop.
Decision Making
OODA Loop
Paper illustration of Business Model Stress Test with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Business Model Stress Test
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis