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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Starfish RetrospectiveMad Sad GladStart Stop Continue
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Start Stop Continue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. | When a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. | When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-12 | 3-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection |