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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Business Strategy SWOT Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | SWOT Analysis arranges strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into a compact picture of the situation. It keeps internal capabilities and external influences separate before strategic options emerge from them. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 h | 4-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-10 | 5-8 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | SWOT matrix, Strategic options, Action list |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StrategyMarketAnalysis | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | StrategyAnalysisMarketPositioning |