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| Criterion |  Agile NoEstimates |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth Growth Experiment |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules. | 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. | When growth ideas surface quickly, the temptation to build immediately instead of learning is high. A Growth Experiment frames an assumption so target group, lever, and measurement are clear before the first deployment. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationForecastingFlow | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning |
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