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Selected:RAID LogDesign SprintARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record
| Criterion | ![]() Delivery RAID Log | ![]() Innovation Design Sprint | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Architecture Architecture Decision Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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 | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 4-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 5-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 1-3 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision 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 | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance |



