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| Criterion |  DevOps ChatOps |  Engineering Kanban |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For operational work in a distributed team, the method links communication with direct system control. It records decisions right where the signal, the context, and the execution come together. | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | Ongoing | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 2-20 | 2-12 | 1-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Chat Transcript, Action Log, Automations | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | CollaborationEngineeringIncident | FlowVisual managementDelivery | ForecastingFlowDelivery | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |