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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Discovery Test Card |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. | 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 | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 5-15 min | 20-35 min | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Test Card with a pre-set threshold | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | StartupValidationCompetition | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |