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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Ansoff MatrixGetting Things DoneBalanced Scorecard
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix | ![]() Operations Getting Things Done | ![]() Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 1 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | StrategyMetricsExecution |



