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Criterion
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent
In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
90-180 min1-2 h Setup, laufend2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent
4-121Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Decision Rights Matrix, AgreementAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutinePrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
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Engineering
Golden Path
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Architecture
Request for Comments
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Operations
Weekly Review