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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Option Framing TOWS Matrix Decision Framing Workshop

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Option Framing	Business Strategy TOWS Matrix	Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop
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.	In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.	The TOWS Matrix connects internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats into action-oriented strategies. It goes a step further than a pure stocktaking.	When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-120 min	1-2 h	60-120 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	3-10	4-10
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	Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs	TOWS Matrix, Strategic Options, Priority Actions	Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison	StrategyAnalysisOptions	Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions

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