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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Inception Canvas Argument Mapping Cynefin Workshop

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Decision Making Argument Mapping	Decision Making Cynefin Workshop
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 Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h	1-3 h	60-180 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	1-8	4-20
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale	Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	SensemakingDecisionRationale	ComplexitySensemakingDecision

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