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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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