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| Criterion |  Decision Making Force Field Analysis |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Growth North Star Metric |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 1-2 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-6 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Force Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | ChangeDecisionStrategy | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |