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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record RAPID Argument Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Decision Making RAPID	Decision Making Argument 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.	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.	In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels.	When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
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	3-12	1-8
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	RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	DecisionRolesGovernance	SensemakingDecisionRationale

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