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Criterion
Paper illustration of a horizontal story map with an activity backbone, task cards below it and a cross-map release line.
Product Discovery
User Story Mapping
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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 a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.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
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2-4 h60-90 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-104-102-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog CandidatesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
Tagsno overlap
BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe