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Selected:Visual ManagementRequest for CommentsSmoke TestARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 1-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 3-20 Reviewer | Nutzertraffic | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |