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| Criterion |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 1-2 h | 90-180 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 4-12 | 3-6 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |