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Criterion
Paper illustration for World Café.
Facilitation
World Café
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
60-180 min1-2 h Setup, laufend20-35 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
12-100+2-61-51-5
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared QuestionsOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogTest Card with a pre-set thresholdCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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