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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Quality Attribute WorkshopDecision JamKepner-Tregoe
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Operations Kepner-Tregoe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-4 h | 60-90 min | 2-8 h |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 5-15 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
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 | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations |