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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)VUCA ScanGetting Things DoneScenario Planning
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Systems Thinking VUCA Scan | ![]() Operations Getting Things Done | ![]() Business Strategy Scenario Planning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 VUCA Scan helps read difficult situations more precisely. Instead of treating unclarity as generally complicated, the method separates fast change, missing knowledge, systemic entanglement, and ambiguous interpretation. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. | Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 0.5-2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-10 | 1 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | VUCA Map, Response Options, Signal and Learning Plan | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | Scenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | SensemakingUncertaintyComplexityStrategyForesight | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | StrategyUncertaintyPlanning |



