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Selected:Decision MatrixRisk StormingTrade-off AnalysisARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared 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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | 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 | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 45-120 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |