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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. | PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 45-75 min | 1-3 h | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 2-10 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Test Matrix, Test Plan | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions | StrategyMarketAnalysis | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |