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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Growth Hooked Model |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | 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. | 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 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | GrowthBehaviorRetention | GrowthMetricsExperiments | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |