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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Product Strategy DIBB | ![]() Facilitation Barcamp | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report. | When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-2 h | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-8 | 15-200 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | DIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |



