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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-35 min | 1-2 h | 60–90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |