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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 shared options, independently placed voting dots, and a highlighted shortlist.
Facilitation
Dot Voting
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique
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.When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional5-15 min1-2 h Setup, laufend60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation3-2015-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsRanked list, Consensus signal, ShortlistAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineRanked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion
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