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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Impact Mapping Alignment Mapping 3-Circle Venn Diagram

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Strategy Impact Mapping	Facilitation Alignment Mapping	Facilitation 3-Circle Venn Diagram
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 a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.	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.	When three perspectives matter at the same time, a Three-Circle Venn Diagram shows the overlaps and remainders precisely. It makes visible where shared effect arises and where only a partial perspective applies.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-90 min	1-2 h	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	4-12	2-8
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	Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery Options	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions	Venn Diagram, Overlap Notes, Differentiators
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation	ComparisonFacilitationAlignment

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