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| Criterion |  Agile NoEstimates |  Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | 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 two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | laufend | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationForecastingFlow | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |