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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)WSJF Architecture Communication Canvas C4 Model

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Agile WSJF	Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas	Architecture C4 Model
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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.	The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.	The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	High	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-90 min	60-120 min	1-4 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	2-8	1-5
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions	Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan	Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization	ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas	ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization

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