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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Assumption Mapping Force Field Analysis Risk Storming

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping	Decision Making Force Field Analysis	Architecture Risk Storming
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.	In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.	Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-60 min	45-90 min	60-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	3-12	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking	Force Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes	Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation	ChangeDecisionStrategy	RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation

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