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Selected:WSJFARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision RecordCost of Delay
| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-45 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-3 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |