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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 2-8 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tags1 shared | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |