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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Barcamp |  Growth Growth Experiment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | When growth ideas surface quickly, the temptation to build immediately instead of learning is high. A Growth Experiment frames an assumption so target group, lever, and measurement are clear before the first deployment. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-5 Tage | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 1-2 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Nutzertraffic | 15-200 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning |