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Criterion
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Purposedifferent
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.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.For an acute quality or delivery problem, the method structures immediate protection and root cause work together. It keeps the situation stable while the actual cause is investigated cleanly.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
90-180 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional1-6 Wochen2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
3-8Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-102-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequencePrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions8D Report, Containment Plan, Root Cause Evidence, Corrective Action PlanProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
QualityProblem solvingRoot cause
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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