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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Business Strategy Value Chain Analysis |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  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. | Value Chain Analysis shows where value is created, costs accrue, and differentiation becomes possible along the process. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a value-chain map and lever list. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | 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 | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | Half day | 1-2 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-8 | 4-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Value Chain Map, Lever List | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | StrategyBusiness modelDiagnosisAnalysis | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |