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Criterion
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint Retrospective
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Purposedifferent
When a sprint is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together.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.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
Scrum TeamNutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Improvement actions, Team agreementsInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveImprovementLearning
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Growth Experiment workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
Growth Experiment
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card