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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Design Storyboarding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When a usage scenario needs to become understandable early, it condenses situations, context, and flow into a legible sequence. It helps check concept ideas before anything gets built. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable Assumptions |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype |