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Selected:Risk StormingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Example MappingQuality Attribute Workshop
| Criterion |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Agile Example Mapping |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound. | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-7 | 5-15 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns |
Tagsno overlap | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop |