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| Criterion |  Agile Story Points |  Agile Ideal Days |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data. | When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend, 1-5 min je Item | 15-60 min | 30-60 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-9 | 2-9 | 2-6 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data | Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationAgileMeasurement | EstimationEffortAgile | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |