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| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Crazy 8s |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. | 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 only a few minutes available and a still-fuzzy solution search, the method forces a wide range of variants. It produces fast sketches before the first idea can settle in, making different directions directly comparable and open to further development. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 8-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Sketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction Options |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint |
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