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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Operations Failure Mode and Effects 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. | For a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 2-6 h | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | FMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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