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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam | ![]() Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 30-240 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |



