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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 20–45 min | 30-90 min | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | Small cross-functional group | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |