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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Learning Card |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-60 min | 25-40 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 2-8 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Learning Card with evidence and next action | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |