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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Decision Framing WorkshopGoal Question MetricHEART Framework
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop | ![]() Engineering Goal Question Metric | ![]() UX Research HEART Framework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | Helps clarify observations, needs, and patterns in concrete terms. It groups observations into patterns, questions, and decisions. The result is captured as a HEART-GSM table and dashboard. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 60-120 min | 90-180 min | 120 min initial, dann laufend |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-10 | 3-6 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | 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 | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | HEART-GSM Table, Dashboard |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | MetricsUX researchMeasurementSatisfaction |



