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| Criterion | ![]() DevOps Blameless Postmortem | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Nutzertraffic | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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