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Criterion
Paper illustration for Landing Page Test.
Product Discovery
Landing Page Test
A paper-based illustration representing North Star Metric with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
North Star Metric
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Purposedifferent
When a value proposition first needs to be checked for resonance, it condenses the idea onto a focused entry page. It shows whether language and offering carry interest.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.Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.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
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage1-2 h60-120 min90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
Nutzertraffic3-83-83-6
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Landing Page, Conversion Data, Learning SummaryNorth Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadenceFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogGQM Table, Metric Profiles
Tagsno overlap
ValidationConversionMarketing
GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention
GrowthRetentionConversion
MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment
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