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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Timeline | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Facilitation 1-2-4-All |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | 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 many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |
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