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Paper illustration for Feynman Technique.
Knowledge Modeling
Feynman Technique
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
The Feynman Technique checks understanding by explaining a topic so that it stays easy for others to understand. It makes knowledge gaps visible before they become costly in everyday work.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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
20-60 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1Designers, developers as users, and facilitation6-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Plain-language Explanation, Knowledge Gaps, Study NotesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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LearningKnowledgeUnderstanding
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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Paper illustration for OODA Loop.
Decision Making
OODA Loop
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Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS