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Selected:Team API ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)C4 Model Architecture Inception Canvas

Criterion	Team Design Team API	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture C4 Model	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.	The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes.	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	1-4 h	1-2 h
Participantsdifferent	Ein Team plus Stakeholder	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-5	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Team API Document	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap	TeamAlignmentCommunicationService	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas

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