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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Discovery Hypothesis Prioritization 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. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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 many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 5-15 min | 1-5 Tage | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-20 | Nutzertraffic | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Prioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis |