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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  DevOps Game Day |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  DevOps Incident Command |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In preparing for rare incidents, the method tests response capability under controlled conditions. It shows where assumptions about stability, roles, and recovery are too optimistic. | 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. | During an acute incident with several people involved, the method creates a clear leadership and communication structure. It reduces chaos when fast coordination and clean situational awareness are both needed at once. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Halber Tag | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | As needed |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 5-20 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-15 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Simulation Notes, Gaps List, Updated Runbooks | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Incident Log, Action Tracker, Stakeholder Updates |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ResilienceOperationsIncident | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | IncidentOperationsReliability |