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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Dot Voting | ![]() Facilitation Consensus Workshop | ![]() Growth North Star Metric | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-3 h | 1-2 h | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | 5-30 | 3-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |



