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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
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.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
LowMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min1-3 Wochen45-90 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-125-12 Interviews3-103-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Timeline, Milestones, Insight NotesJob Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity ListRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsOpportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes
Tagsno overlap
TimelineFacilitationSequence
CustomerOutcomesNeeds
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds
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