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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Mad Sad GladLearning ReviewBlameless Postmortem
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Operations Learning Review |  DevOps Blameless Postmortem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. | After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights. | After an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 | 3-10 | 3-12 |
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 | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Learning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability |