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| Criterion |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Strategy OKRs |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When goals are formulated too generally, it brings measurability, direction, and timing into shape. It prevents intentions from staying without clear verification. | 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 strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 h Setup | Wochen bis Monate je Goal |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 2-8 | 2-20 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports |
Tagsno overlap | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | GrowthMetricsExperiments | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments |