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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 30-60 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 5-12 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | ICE Table, Top Idea List | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |