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| Criterion |  Facilitation World Café |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 45-60 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 12-100+ | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |