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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)5-Minuten VC-CheckKPI TreeGoal Question Metric
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Product Strategy KPI Tree |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 5-15 min | 90-180 min initial, dann laufend | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-5 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | KPI Tree, Owner List | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StartupValidationCompetition | MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |