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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Affinity Diagramming Quality Attribute Workshop 5 Whys

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	UX Research Affinity Diagramming	Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop	Operations 5 Whys
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.	When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.	A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties.	For a single, hard-to-explain deviation, the method exposes the causal chain behind the visible symptom. It keeps the cause open until a controllable condition emerges instead of a mere description.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45–90 min	2-4 h	15-30 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	5-15	2-6
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas	Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns	Root cause notes, Countermeasures
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause	RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop	Root causeIncidentLeanProblem solving

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