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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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 | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-2 h | 20-35 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 4-12 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |