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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Inception Canvas Product Vision Board Alignment Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Product Strategy Product Vision Board	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 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 a product needs a shared direction, it connects target audience, benefit, and business picture in a clear vision. It makes the envisioned future legible for the team.	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	1-2 h	1-2 h	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	2-8	4-12
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	Product Vision Board, Vision Statement, Assumptions and Validation Questions	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	VisionCanvasStrategyAlignment	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation

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