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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique | ![]() 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. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 60-120 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 5-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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