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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Growth A/B Testing |  Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-3 h | 1-4 Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-30 | 1-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |