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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Growth North Star Metric |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|
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 product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-2 h | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 3-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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