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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Map |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results. | 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. | 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 | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h workshop plus review | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 4-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect Hypotheses | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality | StrategyMetricsExecution | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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