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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Facilitation Power Interest Grid |
|---|---|---|---|
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 stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning |
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