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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)C4 Model Views and Beyond Architecture Decision Record

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture C4 Model	Architecture Views and Beyond	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.	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.	Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.	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	Low	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-4 h	1-3 Tage	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-5	1-4	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	Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tags1 shared	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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