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Criterion
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
Paper illustration of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
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.It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.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.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
LowLowHighMedium
Timedifferent
60-90 min15-30 min1-4 Wochen2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
4-121-61-6Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogEisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
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RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
PrioritizationFocusTasks
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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