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| Criterion |  Product Discovery User Story Mapping |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Agile Bucket System |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When user goals and delivery scope could drift apart, it orders the journey from goal to slice. It makes visible where an MVP can genuinely be cut. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. | 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. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 30-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-12 | 3-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog Candidates | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |