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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | 1-5 Tage | 60-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | Nutzertraffic | 4-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |