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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |
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