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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Assumption Mapping Decision Matrix Assumption Surfacing

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping	Decision Making Decision Matrix	Decision Making Assumption Surfacing
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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.	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.	Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-60 min	45-90 min	45-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	2-8	2-8
Formatsame	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking	Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option	Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation	DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs	AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery

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