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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-6 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tags1 shared | StrategyMetricsExecution | GrowthMetricsExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |