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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Balanced ScorecardPirate Metrics AARRRCounter Metrics
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-12 | 2-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StrategyMetricsExecution | GrowthMetricsExperiments | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |