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Criterion
Paper timeline with three dates, parallel lanes for work, signals and decisions, and labeled links.
Facilitation
Timeline
Paper illustration of a JTBD interview notebook with a decision timeline, forces of change and a concise job hypothesis.
Product Discovery
Jobs to Be Done
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration of Opportunity Scoring with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Scoring
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 switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.When opportunities need ranking by their effect, it makes importance and satisfaction directly comparable. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as an opportunity-score table and top outcomes.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min1-3 Wochen1-2 h Setup, laufend60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-125-12 Interviews2-63-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesJob Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity ListOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogOpportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes
Tagsno overlap
TimelineFacilitationSequence
CustomerOutcomesNeeds
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds
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