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| Criterion |  Product Discovery User Story Mapping |  Engineering Golden Path |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Operations Getting Things Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | 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. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 30-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-12 | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog Candidates | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution |