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| Criterion |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | 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 | 45-120 min | 30-60 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |