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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record Impact Mapping GAP Analysis

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Product Strategy Impact Mapping	Business Strategy GAP Analysis
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 a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.	GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	15-45 min	45-90 min	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-3	3-8	2-8
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	Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options	Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning	StrategyAnalysisPlanning

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