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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60–90 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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