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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Expectation Mapping Architecture Decision Record Views and Beyond

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Facilitation Expectation Mapping	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture Views and Beyond
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 roles, interfaces, or projects fail because of differing expectations, Expectation Mapping surfaces these differences. It shows what each side takes for granted and where the pictures diverge.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-90 min	15-45 min	1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-12	1-3	1-4
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Expectation Map, Alignment Notes, Agreements	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AlignmentStakeholdersTeam	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture

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