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| Criterion |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy. | When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60–90 min | 45-60 min | 60-90 min | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-6 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tagsno overlap | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |