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| Criterion | ![]() Agile ROAM Board | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Innovation Lean Startup | ![]() Product Discovery Pretotyping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 1-5 Tage | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | Stunden bis wenige Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-15 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 1-4 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | ROAM Board, Owner List | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision |
Tagsno overlap | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | LeanStartupValidationMVP | ValidationDemandMVP |



