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| Criterion |  Operations PDCA Cycle |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For an improvement that still has to prove itself in everyday work, the method runs it through small learning loops. It connects planning, checking, and standardization into a repeatable learning mode. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1 h bis mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | PDCA Log, Experiment Plan, Learning Outcome, Standard Change | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | Continuous improvementLeanExperiments | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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