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Selected:Radar Architecture Inception Canvas Goal Question Metric ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Decision Making Radar	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Engineering Goal Question Metric	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	When capabilities, maturity levels, or market positions need to be compared across several dimensions, overview is easily lost. Radar brings different characteristics into a shared picture and shows patterns faster than tables do.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	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.	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	1-2 h	90-180 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	2-10	3-8	3-6	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Radar Map, Capability Scores, Action Areas	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	GQM Table, Metric Profiles	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	AssessmentPortfolioCapability	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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