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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Growth North Star Metric |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-2 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments |