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| Criterion | ![]() Engineering Kanban | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | 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 | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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