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Criterion
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Purposedifferent
For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput.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
MediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-8Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap
FlowMeasurementConstraints
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics