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| Criterion | ![]() Growth Flywheel | ![]() Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard | ![]() Engineering Goal Question Metric | ![]() Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 90-180 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-12 | 3-6 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthRetentionConversion | StrategyMetricsExecution | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |



