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Criterion
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen1-2 h Setup, laufend2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
4-121Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutinePrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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StrategyMetricsExecution
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
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Weekly Review
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Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
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Eat the Frog