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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Test Card |  UX Design Lean UX 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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 20-35 min | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-10 | 1-5 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |