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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)SurveysSoftware Architecture CanvasConsensus Workshop
| Criterion |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  UX Research Surveys |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  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. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | 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 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 | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 3-14 Tage | 1-2 h | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 50+ | 3-10 | 5-30 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | QuantitativeResearchValidation | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment |