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Criterion
Paper illustration of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Purposedifferent
It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.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.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional15-90 min daily
Participantsdifferent
1-6Designers, developers as users, and facilitation1
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationFocusTasks
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
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Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Ivy Lee Method
Operations
Ivy Lee Method
A paper tomato timer connects a focus task, short breaks and a work record.
Operations
Pomodoro Technique
Paper illustration for Golden Path
Engineering
Golden Path