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Selected:Request for CommentsOutcome-Driven InnovationARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)DACI
| Criterion |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | 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 cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | Mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 Reviewer | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |