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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)GAP Analysis Goal Question Metric Alignment Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy GAP Analysis	Engineering Goal Question Metric	Facilitation Alignment Mapping
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.	GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing.	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.	When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	90-180 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	3-6	4-12
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	Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes	GQM Table, Metric Profiles	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	StrategyAnalysisPlanning	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation

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