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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Purposedifferent
The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.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
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
20-35 min60–90 min1-5 Tage1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1-52-8Nutzertraffic4-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Test Card with a pre-set thresholdStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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