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Selected:Event ModelingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Request for CommentsDecision Rights Mapping
| Criterion | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Event Modeling | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Architecture Request for Comments | ![]() Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic. | 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. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-6 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-20 Reviewer | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement |
Tagsno overlap | EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility |



