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Selected:Solution Interview Architecture Decision Record ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Golden Path

Criterion	Product Discovery Solution Interview	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Engineering Golden Path
Purposedifferent	When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation.	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.	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.	When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	30-60 min je Interview	15-45 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 Tage Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent	5-10 Interviews	1-3	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks
Tagsno overlap	ValidationInterviewsPrototype	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	EngineeringProductivityGovernance

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