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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making Eisenhower Matrix |  Product Strategy ICE Scoring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When ideas need sorting quickly, it condenses impact, confidence, and effort into one compact score. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as an ICE table and top-ideas list. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-30 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation Notes | ICE Table, Top Idea List |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | PrioritizationFocusTasks | PrioritizationScoringGrowthDecision |