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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Argument Mapping Decision Matrix Architecture Decision Record

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Argument Mapping	Decision Making Decision Matrix	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.	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 several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared 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	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	45-90 min	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-8	2-8	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale	Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	SensemakingDecisionRationale	DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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