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Criterion
Paper illustration of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Purposedifferent
It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.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.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.When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additionalWochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-6Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-81-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsHypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decisionLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog
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PrioritizationFocusTasks
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
LeanStartupValidationMVP
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
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