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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Facilitation Lean Coffee |  Facilitation World Café |
|---|---|---|---|
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 group without a fixed agenda needs to get into useful conversations quickly, Lean Coffee structures the start around interests rather than a presentation. The group itself negotiates which topics get time first and which wait. | When a group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-90 min | 60-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-20 | 12-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Prioritized Topics, Discussion Notes, Action Items | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | FacilitationAutonomyDialogue | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking |
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