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

Criterion	Decision Making Radar	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Engineering Goal Question Metric	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas
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.	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.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low
Timedifferent	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	90-180 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	2-10	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-6	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Radar Map, Capability Scores, Action Areas	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	GQM Table, Metric Profiles	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	AssessmentPortfolioCapability	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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