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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Growth A/B Testing |  Architecture Architecture Inception 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. | 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. | The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h | 1-4 Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 3-10 | 1-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | AlignmentArchitectureCanvas |