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Selected:arc42 ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Cynefin Workshop Architecture Decision Record

Criterion	Architecture arc42	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Cynefin Workshop	Architecture Architecture Decision Record
Purposedifferent	arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.	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 problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 Tage	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	60-180 min	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	1-4	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	4-20	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async
Outputdifferent	Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ComplexitySensemakingDecision	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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