Guardrail Policy
DE: Leitplankenrichtlinie
Clear boundaries that speed decisions without case-by-case approvals.
Organization & Leadership
Guardrails
DE: Guardrails
Constraints ensuring AI systems behave within defined boundaries.
Technology & Platforms
Habit Loop
DE: Gewohnheitsschleife
Cue → routine → reward dynamics driving habitual use.
Product & Growth
Hard Delete
DE: Hard Delete
Permanent physical deletion of records.
Technology & Platforms
Harpooning
DE: Harpooning
Securing a marquee customer/investor to attract more.
Financing & Investors
Hazard Function
DE: Hazard-Funktion
Instantaneous risk rate of an event at time t.
Metrics
Headcount
DE: Mitarbeitendenzahl
Number of employees, often used as a proxy for stage and complexity.
Organization & Leadership
Headcount Plan
DE: Personalplan
Planned hiring by team, role, and timeline aligned to budget.
Organization & Leadership
Health Thresholds
DE: Gesundheitsschwellen
Defined cutoffs for healthy vs. at-risk customers.
Product & Growth
Healthy Usage Threshold
DE: Gesunde Nutzungsschwelle
Minimum activity indicating successful adoption.
Metrics
Heterogeneous Treatment Effect
DE: Heterogener Behandlungseffekt
Variation in treatment effects across subgroups.
Product & Growth
Synonyms: HTE
Heuristic Evaluation
DE: Heuristische Evaluation
Expert-based usability review using established heuristics.
Product & Growth
High Agency
DE: Hohe Eigenwirksamkeit
Taking ownership and finding ways despite obstacles.
Culture & Buzzwords
Hiring Bar
DE: Einstellungsmaßstab
Minimum standard candidates must meet to be hired.
Organization & Leadership
Hiring Funnel
DE: Hiring-Funnel
Stages from sourcing to offer acceptance for candidates.
Organization & Leadership
Hiring Panel
DE: Einstellungspanel
Multi-interviewer panel for structured evaluation.
Organization & Leadership
Hiring Plan Freeze
DE: Einstellungsstopp
Temporary pause on new hires to control burn.
Organization & Leadership
Hiring SLA
DE: Hiring-SLA
Time-bound expectations for each hiring stage.
Organization & Leadership
Hockey Stick Plan
DE: Hockey-Stick-Plan
Aggressive growth plan used to justify valuation.
Financing & Investors
Holdback Percentage
DE: Holdback-Anteil
Share of audience kept on control for measurement.
Product & Growth
Holdout
DE: Holdout-Gruppe
Control group excluded from a treatment for measurement.
Product & Growth
Horizontal Differentiation
DE: Horizontale Differenzierung
Differences in taste-driven attributes at similar price/quality.
Market & Strategy
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
DE: Horizontaler Pod-Autoscaler
Kubernetes controller that scales pods based on metrics.
Technology & Platforms
Synonyms: HPA
Hot Partition
DE: Heiße Partition
Skewed shard receiving disproportionate traffic.
Technology & Platforms
Hot/Warm/Cold Storage
DE: Heiß/Warm/Kalt-Speicher
Tiered storage balancing cost and latency.
Technology & Platforms