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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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