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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Smoke Test | ![]() Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |
|---|---|---|
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. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |
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