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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | 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 | 20–45 min | 1-5 Tage | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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