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| Criterion |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | 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 |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |
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