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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Operations ALPEN Method |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time. | 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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 10-20 min daily | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | 1 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Daily Plan, Time Estimates, Review Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |