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Criterion	Delivery Cost of Delay	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas
Purposedifferent	Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.	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 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.	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	High	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	90-180 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	3-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	3-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
Tagsno overlap	PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop

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