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| Criterion |  Facilitation Problem Framing Workshop |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |