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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Solution Interview |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | 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 | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min je Interview | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-5 Tage | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 5-10 Interviews | 4-12 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationInterviewsPrototype | StrategyMetricsExecution | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | GrowthMetricsExperiments |