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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Impact Mapping Golden Path Architecture Decision Record

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Strategy Impact Mapping	Engineering Golden Path	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.	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 teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate.	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	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-90 min	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	2-8	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	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	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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