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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Strategy KPI Tree |  Product Discovery Fake Door 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. | 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. | When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage | 90-180 min initial, dann laufend | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Nutzertraffic | 3-8 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | KPI Tree, Owner List | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |