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| Criterion |  Product Strategy SMART Goals |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Strategy OKRs |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-30 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-2 h Setup | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 2-8 | 2-20 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | SMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment | GrowthMetricsExperiments | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |