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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Strategy KPI Tree |  Engineering Goal Question 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. | 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 metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min initial, dann laufend | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | KPI Tree, Owner List | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | GrowthMetricsExperiments | MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |