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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Operations ALPEN Method |  Growth Funnel Analysis |  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. | With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time. | When many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 10-20 min daily | 1-3 h | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Daily Plan, Time Estimates, Review Notes | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |