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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 a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Paper illustration of a MoSCoW board with four columns and a visible release boundary.
Delivery
MoSCoW
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.It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.When a release carries too many demands and priorities are only ever negotiated, MoSCoW creates clear boundaries for the next cut. Must, Should, Could, and Won't make commitment, room for maneuver, and trade-off logic visible to everyone involved.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional15-30 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-63-12
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsEisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesPrioritized Backlog, Release Scope, Tradeoff Notes
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
PrioritizationFocusTasks
PrioritizationScopeDecision
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Delivery
Cost of Delay
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Operations
Eat the Frog
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Product Strategy
ICE Scoring
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Decision Making
Pareto Analysis