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| Criterion |  Operations Getting Things Done |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. | 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. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 1-6 | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |