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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Engineering Kanban |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | 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 work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | Ongoing | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-10 | 2-12 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | FlowVisual managementDelivery | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity |