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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Operations MORT Analysis |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Operations Family Tree Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | Mehrere Tage bis Wochen | 45-60 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 2-6 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | MORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic Recommendations | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Family Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | Root causeSafetySystemicIncident | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic |