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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Four paper stations connect system purpose, quality goals, risk cards and focused investigation with a target and gap profile.
Architecture
LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend1-5 Tage3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyoneNutzertraffic1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 peopleNutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteLean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checksClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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