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Selected:PARA MethodGoal Question MetricSoftware Architecture CanvasARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work. | 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. | The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly. | 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 h Setup, laufend | 90-180 min | 1-2 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 3-6 | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |