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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Ansoff Matrix Stakeholder Mapping Alignment Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy Ansoff Matrix	Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping	Facilitation Alignment 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.	The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.	When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.	When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-90 min	60–90 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	2-8	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk Notes	Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio	StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation

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