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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard | ![]() Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | When an idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-6 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |
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