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| Criterion | ![]() Growth Hooked Model | ![]() Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | 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 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |



