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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth A/B Testing |  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. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | 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 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 | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-4 Wochen | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 1-6 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tags1 shared | GrowthMetricsExperiments | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |