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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tags1 shared | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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