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| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Business Strategy Three Horizons |
|---|---|---|
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. | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight |
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