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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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 | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h | Half day | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 4-12 | 3-12 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |