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Criterion
Paper radar with five axes, two current and target profiles, and evidence cards beside each dimension.
Decision Making
Radar
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Purposedifferent
When capabilities, maturity levels, or market positions need to be compared across several dimensions, overview is easily lost. Radar brings different characteristics into a shared picture and shows patterns faster than tables do.A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-2 h2-4 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-105-151-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Radar Map, Capability Scores, Action AreasQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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AssessmentPortfolioCapability
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
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Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
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Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
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ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)