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| Criterion |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery MVP Test Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small. | 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 several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | Nutzertraffic | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Test Matrix, Test Plan |
Tags1 shared | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions |