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| Criterion |  Delivery Shape Up |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | 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 | Medium | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 15-45 min | 4-5 Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 2-4 pro Pitch | 1-3 | 5-8 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |