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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Facilitation Power Interest Grid |  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. | 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 many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy. | 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 | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min | 30-60 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-6 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Power Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |