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| Criterion |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Engineering Fault Isolation |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected. | 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 Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 30-180 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-30 | 1-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop |