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| Criterion |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Innovation Lean Startup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 60-120 min | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | 1-4 | 5-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | ValidationDemandMVP | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | LeanStartupValidationMVP |