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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Barcamp | ![]() Product Discovery Product Kata | ![]() Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 15-200 | 3-10 | 2-6 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



