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| Criterion |  Agile ROAM Board |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | 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 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 | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-2 h | 1-5 Tage | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | 4-12 | Nutzertraffic | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |