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| Criterion |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | When systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-180 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-240 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1-6 | 2-6 | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |