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| Criterion |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Growth North Star Metric |  Product Strategy KPI Tree |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. | When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-2 h | 90-180 min initial, dann laufend | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-8 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | KPI Tree, Owner List | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tags1 shared | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |