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| Criterion |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 60-90 min | 1-4 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 4-20 | 4-12 | 3-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | RiskDecisionSensemaking | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |