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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Business Model Stress TestFake Door TestAssumption Mapping
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test | ![]() Product Discovery Fake Door Test | ![]() Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Half day | 1-5 Tage | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 | Nutzertraffic | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Workshop + 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 | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |



