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| Criterion |  Facilitation Barcamp |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 15-200 | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |