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| Criterion |  Facilitation World Café |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 45-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 12-100+ | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |
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