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Selected:PretotypingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Hypothesis-Driven TroubleshootingRisk Storming
| Criterion |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Engineering Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting |  Architecture Risk Storming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data. | 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 systems fail unexpectedly, spontaneous attempts often produce more noise than insight. Hypothesis-driven Troubleshooting translates symptoms into testable assumptions and makes troubleshooting learnable. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-240 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-4 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Hypothesis Log, Test Plan, Evidence Notes, Diagnosis Summary | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | ValidationDemandMVP | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | TroubleshootingProblem solvingDiagnosis | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation |