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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Growth Growth Experiment |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Learning Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | When growth ideas surface quickly, the temptation to build immediately instead of learning is high. A Growth Experiment frames an assumption so target group, lever, and measurement are clear before the first deployment. | 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. | The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 1-2 Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 25-40 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-6 | 2-8 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Learning Card with evidence and next action |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning |