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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)TOWS Matrix Decision Framing Workshop Alignment Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Business Strategy TOWS Matrix	Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop	Facilitation Alignment Mapping
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 TOWS Matrix connects internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats into action-oriented strategies. It goes a step further than a pure stocktaking.	When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.	When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h	60-120 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	4-10	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	TOWS Matrix, Strategic Options, Priority Actions	Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	StrategyAnalysisOptions	Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation

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