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| Criterion |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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 need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | 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 | High | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-5 Tage | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic | 2-6 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |