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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  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. | 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. | 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 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | GrowthMetricsExperiments | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |