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Selected:Shape UpARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)5-Minuten VC-CheckGetting Things Done
| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Operations Getting Things Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts. | 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 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 5-15 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-5 | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StartupValidationCompetition | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution |