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| Criterion |  Team Design Team API |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Facilitation Expectation Mapping |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document. | 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. | When roles, interfaces, or projects fail because of differing expectations, Expectation Mapping surfaces these differences. It shows what each side takes for granted and where the pictures diverge. | 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 | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | Half day initial, dann laufend | 1-5 Tage | 45-90 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Ein Team plus Stakeholder | Nutzertraffic | 3-12 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Team API Document | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Expectation Map, Alignment Notes, Agreements | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | TeamAlignmentCommunicationService | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AlignmentStakeholdersTeam | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |