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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Acceptance Criteria Workshop Assumption Mapping Example Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Agile Acceptance Criteria Workshop	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping	Agile Example Mapping
Purposedifferent	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 a story needs clear checkpoints before implementation, it sharpens expectation and scope together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Acceptance Criteria and a Story Update.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.	When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	20-40 min pro Story	45-60 min	30-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-6	2-8	3-7
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Acceptance Criteria, Story Update	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking	Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AgileRequirementsRefinementBehavior-Driven Development	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation	Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement

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