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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Decision Framing Workshop GAP Analysis TOWS Matrix

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop	Business Strategy GAP Analysis	Business Strategy TOWS Matrix
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.	GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.	The TOWS Matrix connects internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats into action-oriented strategies. It goes a step further than a pure stocktaking.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	60-120 min	1-3 h	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	4-10	2-8	3-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
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	Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes	TOWS Matrix, Strategic Options, Priority Actions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions	StrategyAnalysisPlanning	StrategyAnalysisOptions

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