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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | The VRIO Framework rates resources and capabilities on whether they are Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and Organized. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a VRIO table and strategic actions. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-6 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model |
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