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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Growth North Star Metric |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |  Growth Flywheel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | 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 ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | ICE Table, Top Idea List | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision | GrowthRetentionConversion |