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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Agile WSJF |  Decision Making Eisenhower Matrix |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 15-30 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 | 1-6 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation Notes | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | PrioritizationFocusTasks | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |