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| Criterion |  Agile ROAM Board |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | Nutzertraffic | 4-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |