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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Views and Beyond Architecture Inception Canvas Alignment Mapping

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Views and Beyond	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	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.	Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 Tage	1-2 h	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-4	3-8	4-12
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation

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