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| Criterion |  Agile Ideal Days |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-60 min | 1-5 Tage | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-9 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationEffortAgile | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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