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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 for Ivy Lee Method
Operations
Ivy Lee Method
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
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.With a restless workday full of too many open items, the method creates radical simplicity. It directs attention to a short sequence instead of a broad, still-open field.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional5-10 min daily2-4 h15-90 min daily
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation12-81
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsDaily Priority List, Completion NotesCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
PrioritizationProductivityExecution
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
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