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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Trade-off Analysis Decision Matrix Decision Tree

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Trade-off Analysis	Decision Making Decision Matrix	Decision Making Decision Tree
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.	With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.	When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic.	For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
Complexitysame	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-120 min	45-90 min	30-90 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	2-8	1-6
Formatsame	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides	Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option	Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions	DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs	DecisionTreeOptions

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