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Criterion
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration for Fake Door 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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.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
HighLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-5 Tage25-40 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
4-12Nutzertraffic1-5Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteLearning Card with evidence and next actionClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
StrategyMetricsExecution
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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