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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 1-4 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | ValidationDemandMVP | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |