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Selected:Software Architecture CanvasShape-First ModelingARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Competency Questions
| Criterion |  Architecture Software Architecture Canvas |  Knowledge Modeling Shape-First Modeling |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Shape-First Modeling defines data quality through shapes before implementation or integration frays at the edges. The approach fits when validation and data contracts should be part of the design from the start. | 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. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | Halber Tag pro Domain Slice | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-4 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Architecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes | SHACL or ShEx Shapes, Validation Reports, Data Contracts, Shape Documentation | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop | Knowledge graphValidationSemantic | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |