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Selected:5-Minuten VC-CheckARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)RAPIDArchitecture Decision Record
| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making RAPID |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | 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. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-12 | 1-3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | DecisionRolesGovernance | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance |