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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Decision Framing Workshop Architecture Decision Record DACI

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Decision Making DACI
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 a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.	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.	In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	60-120 min	15-45 min	30-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	4-10	1-3	2-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment

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