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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Product Discovery Learning Card |  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. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. | 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 | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 25-40 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-10 | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Learning Card with evidence and next action | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |