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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Delphi MethodDecision Framing WorkshopTrade-off Analysis
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | 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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-4 Wochen | 60-120 min | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 6-30 Experten | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |