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Selected:Golden Path Architecture Decision Record Architecture Inception Canvas ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Engineering Golden Path	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	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.	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.	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	Low	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	15-45 min	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	2-8	1-3	3-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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