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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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 several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |
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