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| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Business Strategy Strategy Map |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Product Strategy OKRs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | A Strategy Map translates strategy into a few connected objectives across perspectives such as finance, customers, processes, and learning. This makes visible which capabilities and activities are meant to drive which results. | 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. | When strategic direction needs to become measurable, it connects ambition with checkable results. It makes goals connectable to focus and review. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-4 h workshop plus review | 90-180 min | 1-2 h Setup |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-10 | 3-6 | 2-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Strategy Map, Objective Set, Cause-Effect Hypotheses | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | OKR set, Measurement plan, Review cadence |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | AlignmentExecutionGoalsCausality | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | GoalsAlignmentOutcomesMeasurement |