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| Criterion | ![]() Product Strategy Product Vision Board | ![]() Facilitation Alignment Mapping | ![]() Growth North Star Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a product needs a shared direction, it connects target audience, benefit, and business picture in a clear vision. It makes the envisioned future legible for the team. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timesame | 1-2 h | 1-2 h | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Vision Board, Vision Statement, Assumptions and Validation Questions | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence |
Tags1 shared | VisionCanvasStrategyAlignment | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention |
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