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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Business Model Stress Test A/B Testing Smoke Test

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test	Growth A/B Testing	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.	A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario.	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 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	High	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	Half day	1-4 Wochen	1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	1-6	Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async	Async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Stress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario	Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis	ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth

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