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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Balanced ScorecardGoal Question MetricAlignment Mapping
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  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. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | 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 | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 90-180 min | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-12 | 3-6 | 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 | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | StrategyMetricsExecution | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |