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| Criterion |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-5 Tage | 60–90 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |