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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Product Strategy OKRs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | When strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 90-180 min | 1-2 h Setup |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 3-6 | 2-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement |