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| Criterion |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Test Card |  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 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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 | 60–90 min | 20-35 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |