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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 KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment 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.When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list.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.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional90-180 min initial, dann laufendHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-84-124-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsKPI Tree, Owner ListBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement
StrategyMetricsExecution
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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