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| Criterion |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making RAPID |  Architecture Risk Storming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | 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 | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | DecisionRolesGovernance | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation |