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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Decision Making RAPID |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 45-90 min | 15-45 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-12 | 1-3 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | DecisionRolesGovernance | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |