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Criterion
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Purposedifferent
The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs.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 a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
25-40 min90-180 min1-5 Tage30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-53-6Nutzertraffic2-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Learning Card with evidence and next actionGQM Table, Metric ProfilesClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionCounter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions
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ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments
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