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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Incident Command Sailboat Retrospective Starfish Retrospective

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	DevOps Incident Command	Agile Sailboat Retrospective	Agile Starfish Retrospective
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.	During an acute incident with several people involved, the method creates a clear leadership and communication structure. It reduces chaos when fast coordination and clean situational awareness are both needed at once.	When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture.	When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	As needed	45-90 min	45-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	4-15	4-12	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	Incident Log, Action Tracker, Stakeholder Updates	Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions	Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	IncidentOperationsReliability	RetrospectiveTeamImprovement	RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam

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