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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Round Robin BrainstormingATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)1-2-4-All
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |  Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. | ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-45 min | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-10 | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |