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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision RecordOutcome-Driven Innovationarc42
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture arc42 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-45 min | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-3 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-4 |
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 | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication |