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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)ChatOpsStart Stop ContinueStarfish Retrospective
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  DevOps ChatOps |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For operational work in a distributed team, the method links communication with direct system control. It records decisions right where the signal, the context, and the execution come together. | When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Ongoing | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-20 | 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 | Chat Transcript, Action Log, Automations | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | CollaborationEngineeringIncident | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |