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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Operations Root Cause 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 a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 1-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident |
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