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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Operations Root Cause Analysis |  Agile 4Ls Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|
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 problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. | When a sprint should not only be assessed but also learned from, it captures experience in clear learning categories. It records what worked, what's missing, and what should run differently next time. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-4 h | 45–75 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 | Team members involved |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam |
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