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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth North Star Metric |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | 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. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | GrowthMetricsExperiments |