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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Ivy Lee Method Dot Voting Nominal Group Technique

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Operations Ivy Lee Method	Facilitation Dot Voting	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.	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.	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.	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	Medium	Low	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	5-10 min daily	5-15 min	60-120 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1	3-20	5-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Daily Priority List, Completion Notes	Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist	Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	PrioritizationProductivityExecution	FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization	FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion

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