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

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Facilitation Alignment Mapping	Architecture Views and Beyond
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.	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.	When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	15-45 min	1-2 h	1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-3	4-12	1-4
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture

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