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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Innovation Lean Startup |  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. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | LeanStartupValidationMVP | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |