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| Criterion |  Facilitation World Café |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Barcamp |  Growth Growth Experiment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | When growth ideas surface quickly, the temptation to build immediately instead of learning is high. A Growth Experiment frames an assumption so target group, lever, and measurement are clear before the first deployment. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 1-5 Tage | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 1-2 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 12-100+ | Nutzertraffic | 15-200 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning |