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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |
|---|---|---|---|
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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Nutzertraffic | 5-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion |
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