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| Criterion |  Growth Funnel Analysis |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. | 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 | 1-3 h | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 90-180 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 4-12 | 3-6 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | AnalyticsConversionGrowth | StrategyMetricsExecution | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |