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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Pirate Metrics (AARRR) with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
Pirate Metrics AARRR
A paper-based illustration representing North Star Metric with its core stages and visible working result.
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.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 h Setup, laufend1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
2-83-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlogNorth Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence
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GrowthMetricsExperiments
GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention
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Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
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