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Selected:Golden Path Domain Context Map Architecture Decision Record ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Engineering Golden Path	Domain Modeling Domain Context Map	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	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.	When a domain model and its associated contexts need to be thought through together, it creates a shared overview. It connects the business view and organizational boundary into a readable whole.	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.	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	Medium	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend	1-3 h	15-45 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	2-8	3-10	1-3	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks	Domain Context Map, Boundary Notes, Ownership Map	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	EngineeringProductivityGovernance	Domain-Driven DesignContextBoundaries	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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