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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | 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. | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-5 Tage | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | Nutzertraffic | 1-4 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationDemandMVP | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |