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Selected:Architecture Decision Record Views and Beyond ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Golden Path

Criterion	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture Views and Beyond	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Engineering Golden Path
Purposedifferent	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.	Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.	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 teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	15-45 min	1-3 Tage	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent	1-3	1-4	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8
Formatdifferent	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	EngineeringProductivityGovernance

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