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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Knowledge Modeling IBIS |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 h | Mehrere Wochen | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-8 |
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 | Issue Map, Positions, Argument Notes | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RationaleKnowledgeDecision | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |