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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Purposedifferent
When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess.Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs.
Complexitysame
HighHighHigh
Timedifferent
45-90 min4-5 TageMehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-105-82-6 researchers plus sample
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsPrototype, Test Findings, Decision RationaleDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses
Tagsno overlap
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup