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| Criterion | ![]() DevOps Blameless Postmortem | ![]() Architecture Architecture Decision Record | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | After an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 15-45 min | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 1-3 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



