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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)C4 Model Goal Question Metric Architecture Inception Canvas

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture C4 Model	Engineering Goal Question Metric	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas
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 C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-4 h	90-180 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-5	3-6	3-8
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	Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram	GQM Table, Metric Profiles	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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