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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Golden Circle arc42 Architecture Decision Record

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Growth Golden Circle	Architecture arc42	Architecture Architecture Decision Record
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.	In positioning and communication, what an offering actually stands for often becomes blurred. The Golden Circle sharpens a product's inner rationale and connects purpose, approach, and offering into a clear statement.	arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	30-60 min	1-2 Tage	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-8	1-4	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Why Statement, Messaging Notes, Positioning Draft	Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	MarketingPositioningCommunication	ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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