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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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 topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 4-12 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationOptionsDecision | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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