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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check | ![]() DevOps Game Day | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Operations Learning Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Halber Tag | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 5-20 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
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 | Learning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ResilienceOperationsIncident | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations |



