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| Criterion |  Growth Flywheel |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Growth Funnel Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | 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 many visitors or users drop off along the way, the reason behind the number often stays hidden. Funnel Analysis exposes these transitions and makes visible exactly where the path collapses. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 15-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-3 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Funnel report, Drop-off analysis, Optimization hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthRetentionConversion | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | AnalyticsConversionGrowth |