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Selected:Team API ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record Architecture Inception Canvas

Criterion	Team Design Team API	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas
Purposedifferent	When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.	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.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Low	Low
Timedifferent	Half day initial, dann laufend	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	15-45 min	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Ein Team plus Stakeholder	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-3	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Team API Document	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	TeamAlignmentCommunicationService	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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