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Selected:Risk Storming ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Software Architecture Canvas Assumption Mapping

Criterion	Architecture Risk Storming	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping
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.	The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	60-90 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-2 h	45-60 min
Participantsdifferent	4-12	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-10	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async
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	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap	RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation

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