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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 OODA Loop.
Decision Making
OODA Loop
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
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assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.In dynamic situations, decisions become outdated faster than they can be prepared. The OODA Loop holds observing, orienting, deciding, and acting together as a recurring rhythm so reaction does not slide into inertia.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-4 Wochen15-60 min je Zyklus25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation6-30 Experten1-81-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesSituation Assessment, Decision Loop, Action UpdatesLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionChangeLearningStrategy
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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