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| Criterion |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Growth A/B Testing |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 1-4 Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 Reviewer | 1-6 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |