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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Opportunity Scoring |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | 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 opportunities need ranking by their effect, it makes importance and satisfaction directly comparable. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as an opportunity-score table and top outcomes. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Mehrere Wochen | 60-120 min | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 3-6 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Opportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds | InnovationPrototypeResearch |