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Selected:Problem InterviewViews and BeyondARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record
| Criterion |  Product Discovery Problem Interview |  Architecture Views and Beyond |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution. | Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min je Interview | 1-3 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 Interviews | 1-4 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-3 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer Segments | Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryInterviewsValidation | DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance |