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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 six-field PESTLE grid
Business Strategy
PESTLE Analysis
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
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.PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-3 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-101-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsPESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic QuestionsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
StrategyMarketAnalysis
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of a SWOT matrix with four separated quadrants and marked strategic options.
Business Strategy
SWOT Analysis
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping