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| Criterion | ![]() Agile Scrum | ![]() Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries. | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 90-180 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 4-12 | Nutzertraffic | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |



