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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
A paper-based illustration representing Pirate Metrics (AARRR) with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
Pirate Metrics AARRR
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Purposedifferent
With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work.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.Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
Ongoing1-2 h Setup, laufend60-120 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
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Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesAARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlogFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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SignalsOperationsVisual management
GrowthMetricsExperiments
GrowthRetentionConversion
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
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