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Criterion
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of a Strategy Canvas with several value curves
Business Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
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.The Blue Ocean Strategy Canvas shows how an offering is positioned relative to the market. Differentiation thereby becomes tangible in value factors instead of merely being claimed.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 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.
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1-5 Tage2-4 h1-4 Wochen1-5 Tage
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Nutzertraffic3-101-6Nutzertraffic
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Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteStrategy Canvas, Value Curve, ERRC ActionsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
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ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
StrategyPositioningInnovationValue
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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