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Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
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.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.In a week with many open loops, the method creates distance from operational noise. It organizes commitments, calendar, and projects so the next week becomes workable.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
MediumMediumLowHigh
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional45-90 min30-60 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-814-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsUpdated Task System, Weekly Focus, Next ActionsBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
ProductivityExecutionPlanning
StrategyMetricsExecution
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