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| Criterion |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 60–90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | GrowthMetricsExperiments | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |