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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Quality Attribute Workshop arc42 Architecture Decision Record

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop	Architecture arc42	Architecture Architecture Decision Record
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.	A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties.	arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	2-4 h	1-2 Tage	15-45 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	5-15	1-4	1-3
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns	Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tags1 shared	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop	ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance

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