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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Discovery Opportunity Scoring |  Facilitation Dot Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 15-45 min | 60-120 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 1-10 | 3-6 | 3-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Opportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization |