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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Decision Tree Argument Mapping Cynefin Workshop

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Decision Tree	Decision Making Argument Mapping	Decision Making Cynefin Workshop
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 decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.	When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.	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.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	30-90 min	1-3 h	60-180 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-6	1-8	4-20
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List	Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale	Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	DecisionTreeOptions	SensemakingDecisionRationale	ComplexitySensemakingDecision

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