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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture Request for Comments |
|---|---|---|
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. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-20 Reviewer |
Formatsame | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance |
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