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Criterion
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
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Agile
Ideal Days
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 effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage15-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Nutzertraffic2-9
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats
Tagsno overlap
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
EstimationEffortAgile
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Fake Door Test
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Assumption Mapping
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