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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 3-10 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity |
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