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Selected:Architecture Inception Canvas Team API ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)C4 Model

Criterion	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Team Design Team API	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture C4 Model
Purposedifferent	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.	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.	The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 h	Half day initial, dann laufend	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-4 h
Participantsdifferent	3-8	Ein Team plus Stakeholder	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-5
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Team API Document	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram
Tagsno overlap	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	TeamAlignmentCommunicationService	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization

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