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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)McKinsey 7S 3-Circle Venn Diagram Architecture Inception Canvas

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy McKinsey 7S	Facilitation 3-Circle Venn Diagram	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas
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.	McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result.	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.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	2-4 h	15-45 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-12	2-8	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions	Venn Diagram, Overlap Notes, Differentiators	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange	ComparisonFacilitationAlignment	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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