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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |
|---|---|---|---|
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note |
Tags1 shared | GrowthMetricsExperiments | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth |
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