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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
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.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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 several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-4 Wochen1-5 Tage45-75 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation6-30 ExpertenNutzertraffic2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionTest Matrix, Test Plan
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions
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