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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)
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
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.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional45-90 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-124-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk NotesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ChangeDecisionStrategy
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Paper illustration for OODA Loop.
Decision Making
OODA Loop
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB