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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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