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| Criterion |  Agile NoEstimates |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend | 30-60 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-6 | 4-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationForecastingFlow | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | StrategyMetricsExecution | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |