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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Problem Framing Workshop |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 20-35 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 4-10 | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Problem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |