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Selected:Polarity Mapping Risk Storming Assumption Mapping ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Systems Thinking Polarity Mapping	Architecture Risk Storming	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	Polarity Mapping makes tensions between two opposing poles tangible, such as standardization and adaptation or control and autonomy. The method guards against making apparent either-or decisions prematurely.	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.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.	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	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-2 h	60-90 min	45-60 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	3-12	4-12	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Polarity Map, Warning Signs, Balance Actions	Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	Systems thinkingTradeoffsLeadership	RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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