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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Delivery MoSCoW |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Architecture Request for Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 release carries too many demands and priorities are only ever negotiated, MoSCoW creates clear boundaries for the next cut. Must, Should, Could, and Won't make commitment, room for maneuver, and trade-off logic visible to everyone involved. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-90 min | 90-180 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-12 | 3-8 | 3-20 Reviewer |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Prioritized Backlog, Release Scope, Tradeoff Notes | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | PrioritizationScopeDecision | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance |