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Criterion
Paper illustration of Strategy Execution Loop with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Execution Loop
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Purposedifferent
The Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning.Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews1-2 Wochen je Loop15-45 min25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
5-123-101-31-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning LogDirection, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportADR File, Decision Log, RationaleLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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