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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-90 min | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-10 | 1-6 | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | InnovationPrototypeResearch | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |