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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 h | 2-4 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 3-12 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |