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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Product Strategy ICE 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 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 30-60 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 5-12 | 2-8 | 3-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | ICE Table, Top Idea List | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization |