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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)arc42 Cynefin Workshop Architecture Decision Record

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture arc42	Decision Making Cynefin Workshop	Architecture Architecture Decision Record
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.	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.	When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 Tage	60-180 min	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-4	4-20	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View	Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication	ComplexitySensemakingDecision	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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