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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Decision Tree Decision Framing Workshop Architecture Inception Canvas

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Decision Tree	Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas
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 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.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	30-90 min	60-120 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-6	4-10	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	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	Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	DecisionTreeOptions	Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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