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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Software Architecture CanvasNominal Group TechniqueConsensus Workshop
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-2 h | 60-120 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 | 5-12 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |