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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Round Robin Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | 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. | With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea List, Cluster, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity |
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