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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Growth Flywheel |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 60-120 min | 90-180 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-8 | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | GrowthRetentionConversion | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | GrowthMetricsExperiments |