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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Purposedifferent
ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.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.When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-4 Wochen30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-63-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
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Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
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