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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs |
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