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Selected:Decision Rights MappingLean StartupGoal Question MetricARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 90-180 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | LeanStartupValidationMVP | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |