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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Product Discovery Fake Door 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 20-35 min | 5-15 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 1-5 | 3-20 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |