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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 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. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen | 15-45 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 | 1-3 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |