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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Decision Making Decision Tree |  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. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. | 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 |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 30-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 1-6 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | DecisionTreeOptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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