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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  DevOps Incident Timeline Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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 an incident with an unclear sequence, the method makes the timeline precisely visible. It separates perception, reaction, and delay so cause and effect become more clearly readable. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 60-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Incident Timeline, Evidence Log, Delay Analysis, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | IncidentTimelineSite Reliability Engineering |
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