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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Riskiest Assumption Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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 idea hinges on one critical unknown, it prioritizes testing that exact piece of uncertainty first. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritized list of assumptions, a test plan, and a result report. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 45-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 Wochen pro Iteration |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Prioritized Assumption List, Test Plan, Results Report |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryAssumptions |