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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Agile WSJF |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Decision Making Eisenhower Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 5-15 min | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 | 1-5 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation Notes |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | StartupValidationCompetition | PrioritizationFocusTasks |