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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Goal Question Metric Decision Rights Mapping DACI

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Engineering Goal Question Metric	Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping	Decision Making DACI
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.	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.	In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.	In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	90-180 min	90-180 min	30-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-6	4-12	2-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	GQM Table, Metric Profiles	Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement	DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment	DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility	DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment

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