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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Software Architecture Canvas Smoke Test Risk Storming

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas	Product Discovery Smoke Test	Architecture Risk Storming
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 demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.	Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h	1-5 Tage	60-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	Nutzertraffic	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async	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	Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note	Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop	ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth	RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation

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