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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Decision Making Eisenhower Matrix |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Lean Startup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped. | 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. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 15-30 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation Notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | PrioritizationFocusTasks | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | LeanStartupValidationMVP |