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| Criterion |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | 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. | 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. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 6-30 Experten | 2-6 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map |
Tagsno overlap | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments | StrategyMetricsExecution |