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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Balanced Scorecard Pirate Metrics AARRR Smoke Test

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard	Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR	Product Discovery Smoke Test
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.
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	1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	4-12	2-8	Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	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	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	StrategyMetricsExecution	GrowthMetricsExperiments	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth

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