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| Criterion |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Facilitation Stakeholder Salience Model |  Growth North Star Metric |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based 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. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 60-90 min | 1-2 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-6 | 3-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Salience Diagram, Strategy per Class | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsExperiments | StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |