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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Funnel Analysis workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
Funnel Analysis
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
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 many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min1-3 h45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-121-52-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesFunnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypothesesTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides
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TimelineFacilitationSequence
AnalyticsConversionGrowth
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Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis