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| Criterion |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Brainstorming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. | 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. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 10-20 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 4-100+ | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | FacilitationInclusionIdeation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence |