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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Quality Attribute WorkshopDesign SprintSolution Interview
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop | ![]() Innovation Design Sprint | ![]() Product Discovery Solution Interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-4 h | 4-5 Tage | 30-60 min je Interview |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 5-15 | 5-8 | 5-10 Interviews |
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 | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | ValidationInterviewsPrototype |



