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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Decision Making Force Field Analysis |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Force Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | ChangeDecisionStrategy | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |