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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  DevOps ChatOps |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | For operational work in a distributed team, the method links communication with direct system control. It records decisions right where the signal, the context, and the execution come together. | 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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | Ongoing | 1-5 Tage | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 2-20 | Nutzertraffic | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Chat Transcript, Action Log, Automations | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | CollaborationEngineeringIncident | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |