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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Impact Mapping5-Minuten VC-CheckGetting Things Done
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Strategy Impact Mapping |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Operations Getting Things Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures. | 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. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 5-15 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 | 1-5 | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning | StartupValidationCompetition | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution |