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Selected:Eat the Frog5-Minuten VC-CheckARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Getting Things Done
| Criterion |  Operations Eat the Frog |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Operations Getting Things Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-90 min daily | 5-15 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 1-5 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Priority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution | StartupValidationCompetition | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution |