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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | 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 | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 45-90 min | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |