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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Growth Growth Experiment |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning. | When growth ideas surface quickly, the temptation to build immediately instead of learning is high. A Growth Experiment frames an assumption so target group, lever, and measurement are clear before the first deployment. | 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. | 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 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 1-2 Wochen | 90-180 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 1-6 | 3-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Experiment card, Result summary, Next bet | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | MarketingGrowthExperimentsLearning | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | GrowthMetricsExperiments |