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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Decision Making Three-Point Estimation |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  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. | A single estimate for effort, time, or risk often looks too smooth for the real uncertainty behind it. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Three-Point Estimate, Risk Range, and Assumption Notes. | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | 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 | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-5 Tage | 10-30 min je Item | 1-4 Wochen | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Nutzertraffic | 1-8 | 6-30 Experten | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Three-Point Estimate, Risk Range, Assumption Notes | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | EstimationUncertaintyForecasting | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |