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Selected:Risk StormingNominal Group TechniqueDot VotingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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 | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 60-120 min | 5-15 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 5-12 | 3-20 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |