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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 for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk
Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.When there is uncertainty about the real course of a process, the method brings observation to the place where work happens. It combines perception, follow-up questions, and process knowledge so decisions rest on actual workflows instead of assumptions.Intervention Mapping translates a need for change into a planned, evaluable program. The method connects target group, determinants, actions, and measurement into a traceable chain.
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Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-4 h30-120 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-82-64-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsObservation Notes, Improvement IdeasLogic Model, Change Objectives, Intervention Components, Evaluation Plan
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
LeanObservationProcessOperations
ChangeSystems thinkingCapability
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