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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Futures Wheel |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Engineering Golden Path |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Futures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic Signals | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks |
Tagsno overlap | ForesightSystems thinkingSignals | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | EngineeringProductivityGovernance |
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