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Selected:Bounded Context Canvas ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record Context Map

Criterion	Domain Modeling Bounded Context Canvas	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Domain Modeling Context Map
Purposedifferent	When a business context is still loosely outlined, it shapes language, responsibility, and integration space. It clarifies what belongs together and where a boundary needs to hold.	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.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	When several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	15-45 min	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	3-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-3	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Context Canvas, Glossary, Integration Notes	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Context Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary Notes
Tagsno overlap	Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesModeling	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy

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