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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
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-101-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog CandidatesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP
DecisionTreeOptions
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis