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| Criterion |  Agile ROAM Board |  UX Research Diary Study |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Smoke 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 experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-4 Wochen | 1-4 Wochen | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | 5-20 | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | UX researchTrackingBehavior | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |