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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  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 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. | 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 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 60-120 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-6 | 5-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Opportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds |