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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 5-15 min | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-20 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |