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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | 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 | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 3-10 | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning |