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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  DevOps Blameless Postmortem |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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. | 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 two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-5 Tage | 30-90 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic | 3-12 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |