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| Criterion |  Growth North Star Metric |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 90-180 min | 45-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | GrowthMetricsExperiments |