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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Request for CommentsCounter MetricsGoal Question Metric
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 30-60 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-20 Reviewer | 2-6 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |