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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews) |  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. | 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. | LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-5 Tage | 3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Lean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checks | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |