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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 60–90 min | 20-35 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 1-5 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |