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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  UX Research Surveys |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | 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 | Medium | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 3-14 Tage | 1-4 Wochen | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 50+ | 1-6 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | QuantitativeResearchValidation | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |