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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth A/B Testing |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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. | ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation. | 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 | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-4 Wochen | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-6 | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |