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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 fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
Operations
Fishbone Diagram
Paper illustration for ABC Analysis
Operations
ABC Analysis
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.When a problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers.With many similar objects of differing economic significance, the method prioritizes effort by effect. It separates what needs regular steering from what rarely needs attention.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional30-60 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-6Designers, developers as users, and facilitation2-81-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsFishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation BacklogABC Classification, Focus Rules, Control List
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationFocusTasks
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
Root causeQualityOperations
PrioritizationOperationsPortfolio
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