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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 1-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | ICE Table, Top Idea List | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | SensemakingDecisionRationale | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |