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Selected:Goal Question Metric ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Risk Storming Architecture Inception Canvas

Criterion	Engineering Goal Question Metric	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Risk Storming	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas
Purposedifferent	Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs.	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.	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.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	90-180 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	60-90 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	3-6	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	4-12	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	GQM Table, Metric Profiles	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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