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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | 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. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 15-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-3 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |