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Selected:Software Architecture Canvas Goal Question Metric Architecture Inception Canvas ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Architecture Software Architecture Canvas	Engineering Goal Question Metric	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Purposedifferent	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.	Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	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	1-2 h	90-180 min	1-2 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	3-10	3-6	3-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes	GQM Table, Metric Profiles	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop	MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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