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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-6 | 3-6 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |