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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation World Café | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
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 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 12-100+ | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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