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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Product Canvas |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When product goal and feature scope don't yet fit cleanly together, it creates a shared working picture. It connects need, core features, and assumptions into a solid starting point. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-2 h | 2-3 h | 60–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope Notes | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasDiscoveryScope | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange |