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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Paper illustration for Pareto Analysis
Decision Making
Pareto Analysis
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.It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.In many problem situations, effect is distributed unequally across many causes. A Pareto Analysis separates the few drivers with high leverage from the long remainder and focuses attention on what measurably moves the needle.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional90-180 min15-30 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-81-61-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceEisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesPareto Chart, Top Causes, Focus List
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
PrioritizationFocusTasks
PrioritizationQualityFocusRoot cause
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