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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Operations Ivy Lee Method |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Operations Eat the Frog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With a restless workday full of too many open items, the method creates radical simplicity. It directs attention to a short sequence instead of a broad, still-open field. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 5-10 min daily | 45-60 min | 15-90 min daily |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1 | 2-8 | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Daily Priority List, Completion Notes | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Priority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | PrioritizationProductivityExecution | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution |