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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 of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
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.It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
90-180 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional15-30 min15-90 min daily
Participantsdifferent
3-8Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1-61
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequencePrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsEisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
PrioritizationFocusTasks
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
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