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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-4 Wochen | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |