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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
A paper-based illustration representing North Star Metric with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
North Star Metric
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
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.Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-2 h90-180 minMultiple workshops over several weeks
Participantsdifferent
3-83-83-62-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsNorth Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadenceGQM Table, Metric ProfilesHooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention
MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment
GrowthBehaviorRetention
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