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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Operations PDCA Cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | For an improvement that still has to prove itself in everyday work, the method runs it through small learning loops. It connects planning, checking, and standardization into a repeatable learning mode. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-5 Tage | 1 h bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | Nutzertraffic | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | PDCA Log, Experiment Plan, Learning Outcome, Standard Change |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | Continuous improvementLeanExperiments |
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