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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique | ![]() Facilitation 1-2-4-All |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 60-120 min | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Nutzertraffic | 5-12 | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |



