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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 illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
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.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional90-180 min initial, dann laufend45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-83-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsKPI Tree, Owner ListOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
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Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram