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Criterion
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
60-120 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
4-10Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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Architecture Inception Canvas
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing