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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Purposedifferent
With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.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.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
Ongoing1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1-203-20 Reviewer1-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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SignalsOperationsVisual management
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
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Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping