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Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
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.In a week with many open loops, the method creates distance from operational noise. It organizes commitments, calendar, and projects so the next week becomes workable.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
MediumHighLowLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additionalHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen30-60 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-1212-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapUpdated Task System, Weekly Focus, Next ActionsCounter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
StrategyMetricsExecution
ProductivityExecutionPlanning
MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments
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