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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Facilitation Power Interest Grid | ![]() Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
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 many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |
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