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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Growth A/B Testing |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-4 Wochen | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | StrategyMetricsExecution | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |