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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 3-10 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tags1 shared | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |