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| Criterion |  Growth North Star Metric |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | GrowthMetricsExperiments | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |