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Criterion
Paper illustration of a scoring table with four factor columns, a calculator and three ordered initiative cards.
Product Strategy
RICE Scoring
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
A paper-based illustration representing Pirate Metrics (AARRR) with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
Pirate Metrics AARRR
Purposedifferent
When many initiatives compete for the same resources, it brings reach, impact, confidence, and effort into one shared ranking. It makes prioritization economically connectable.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
60-90 min1-5 Tage1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
2-10Nutzertraffic2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RICE Scores, Ranked List, Assumption LogInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteAARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationScoringRoadmapTradeoffs
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
GrowthMetricsExperiments
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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of ICE Scoring with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
ICE Scoring
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping