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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Decision Making DACI |  Decision Making RAPID |  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. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | 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 | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-10 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment | DecisionRolesGovernance | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |