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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | 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. | 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. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | GrowthMetricsExperiments | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |