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Criterion
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Purposedifferent
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.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.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
MediumLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional20-35 min1-4 Wochen1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people1-51-6Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
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 checksTest Card with a pre-set thresholdExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
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ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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