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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|
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. | A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 2-6 h |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality |
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