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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | 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 | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 1-5 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tags1 shared | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |
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