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| Criterion |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tags1 shared | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |