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| Criterion |  Decision Making RAPID |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionRolesGovernance | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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