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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |