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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making Pareto Analysis |  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. | In many problem situations, effect is distributed unequally across many causes. A Pareto Analysis separates the few drivers with high leverage from the long remainder and focuses attention on what measurably moves the needle. | The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min | 15-90 min daily |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-6 | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Pareto Chart, Top Causes, Focus List | Priority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | PrioritizationQualityFocusRoot cause | PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution |