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| Criterion |  Business Strategy VRIO Framework |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The VRIO Framework rates resources and capabilities on whether they are Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and Organized. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a VRIO table and strategic actions. | 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 Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VRIO Table, Strategic Actions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyDiagnosisBusiness modelCapability | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |
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