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Criterion
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
Purposedifferent
Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.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.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result.
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Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional60–90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
4-12Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions
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StrategyMetricsExecution
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
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