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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record5-Minuten VC-CheckGolden Path
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Engineering Golden Path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-45 min | 5-15 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-3 | 1-5 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | 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 | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | StartupValidationCompetition | EngineeringProductivityGovernance |