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| Criterion |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Power Interest Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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 many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60–90 min | 45-60 min | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder |
Tagsno overlap | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning |