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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | GrowthMetricsExperiments |