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Criterion	Decision Making Decision Tree	Engineering Golden Path	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.	When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate.	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.	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	Medium	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	30-90 min	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	15-45 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	1-6	2-8	1-3	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	DecisionTreeOptions	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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