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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Cynefin Workshop Knowledge Mapping Risk Storming

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Cynefin Workshop	Knowledge Modeling Knowledge Mapping	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 problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic.	Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable.	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	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	60-180 min	1-3 h	60-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	4-20	3-12	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes	Knowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan	Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ComplexitySensemakingDecision	KnowledgeMappingRisk	RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation

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