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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 MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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.When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan.When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional45-75 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-6Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-8Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsTest Matrix, Test PlanClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
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PrioritizationFocusTasks
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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