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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth Funnel Analysis |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work. | 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 many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 1-5 Tage | 1-3 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |