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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | 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 | High | High | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 4-5 Tage | Mehrere Wochen | 15-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 5-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-3 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |