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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Purposedifferent
When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time.When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min10-20 min1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
2-124-100+2-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
TimelineFacilitationSequence
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
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Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
GIST Planning