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| Criterion |  Facilitation Lean Coffee |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group without a fixed agenda needs to get into useful conversations quickly, Lean Coffee structures the start around interests rather than a presentation. The group itself negotiates which topics get time first and which wait. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 5-15 min | 20-35 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | 3-20 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized Topics, Discussion Notes, Action Items | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationAutonomyDialogue | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |