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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | 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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-6 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | StartupValidationCompetition |